Coping With Founder Anxiety
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all! Here’s the time and my morning Pomodoro. I’ve already been out this morning for a walk, got my cup of coffee from a local petrol pump (the Costa inside it). Listened to some of a new audible I started this morning ‘Go For No’ by Richard Fenton (decent start and allegory for […]
The Joys Of Intense Salary Negotiation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning guys, So for the last couple of days, I’ve been involved in intense salary negotiations with my head of outbound sales Adham. It’s been (dare I say it) – an intense learning experience for us both. Over the last 60 days, I’ve been trying to build out a sales team. Whilst this has […]
My Approach To ‘Learn’ Faster Than The Other Guys
Reading Time: 5 minutes Morning all, Here’s the time: I wanted to discuss this morning my approach to learning with the hope you might be able to ‘nick’ things from it – Let’s get into it – So – Every Friday I have a weekly accountability/coaching call with Valentina Kbedi – On that call, we’ll set ‘targets’ for […]
Am I Focussing On The Right Problem?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hey guys, Waking up this morning was a struggle – I guess I’m not sleeping as well as I would like. Ah well – we’ll see what tomorrow brings. Anyway, I’m reading ‘Tribe of Mentors’ at the moment by Tim Ferriss and someone in their said that a favourite quote of theirs that they’d […]
10 ways to fake it till you make it
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hi guys, Here’s the time right now – I’m actually on the Central line at Bank headed towards Northolt. I’ll be getting off at North Acton to switch so I can get on the train headed towards Ealing Broadway. And then onwards till I hit my end destination near Heathrow Airport where my folks […]
What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do With Your Life
Reading Time: 14 minutes Hi all, Here’s the time – And I had this question come up (and it continues to regularly come up) from people within my team. At Pearl Lemon (my marketing agency) we have a placement programme where we work with young people who are often coming to Pearl Lemon with it being their first […]
Having A Lion’s Mentality And Grit And Growth Mindset
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi guys, Today I want to rant on behalf of all of those people who get told they’re doing too much, they’re spread too thin and all of the like. These are challenges or objections I keep coming up against as I speak to people about all that I’m working on. Having a lion’s […]
Relationship Advice For Men Based Upon My Massive Failures
Reading Time: 11 minutes Morning all, I was having a conversation with Frank about our respective relationships and the different challenges that we are facing. He’s not been intimate with his partner for 2-years now. Equally, I had another conversation with George, and he’s continually pushing his partner to be more productive with her time. This got me […]
How To Deal With Feeling Pressure – My Coping Strategies
Reading Time: 6 minutes Morning guys, Yesterday I stopped writing – or at least I said I would. Lol – here I am a day later and back at it. What it is is that I’m beginning to feel the pressure of all of the balls I’m juggling and things are beginning to slip outside of my control. […]
How To Deal With Ungrateful People
Reading Time: 7 minutes Morning all, Late to bed, late to rise today so starting much later than I’d like to – but hey-ho (is this expression familiar to you) – it’s still 90 minutes before 9 am which is good. I want to talk today about how to deal with ungrateful people by framing it around a […]
How To Change Your Habits And Then Change Your Life
Reading Time: 8 minutes Morning all, I was up at my usual time this morning (430am) so it feels great to get a jump on the day and look at something that you’ll find me often talking about as being critical to all of our success. This is the power of habits – i.e how you spend your […]
What Most People Don’t Realise With Building Transferable Skills
Reading Time: 7 minutes Morning all, I was having a conversation with my friend Amir yesterday that got me thinking about the power of transferable skills and how critical they have been to my growth. So, in marketing, there’s this concept of the ‘T-Shaped’ marketer. i.e being generally good at marketing, but then having one specific area where […]
What To Wear To A Funeral (Having Attended Multiple), As Well As Say
Reading Time: 8 minutes Morning all, I went to my Uncle’s funeral yesterday and was listening to his brother (my other uncle’s speech) as we sat there in the crematorium before his body was burnt. My uncle (Murly) spoke about what strange several years it’s been… Counting the deaths we’ve seen… There’s Les, Matthew’s Dad, my cousin Anita, […]
The Power of Long-Term Thinking in Life and Business
Reading Time: 6 minutes Morning all, I wanted to discuss something that has come up in conversations with my good friend Amir (of Elevano) over the past couple of days – and I’m seeing it repeated in many other aspects of my life This is the power of thinking long-term is something that I’m really only beginning to […]
Bird Box – Book Review
Reading Time: 9 minutes Morning all, I’ve had something of a fiction renaissance as it looks like I got through several hours of reading this weekend. More than five specifically. And I’ve just finished reading ‘Bird Box’ by Josh Malerman having watched the movie a couple of weeks back. So this time I wanted to take the opportunity […]
How to Be an Adult in Relationships Using the 5 A’s?
Reading Time: 9 minutes Morning all, Here’s the time: I want to talk today about how to be an adult in relationships using the 5 A’s. Now I’ve not actually read David Richo’s book ‘How to be an adult in relationships’ (but I intend to now). I really wanted to talk about my challenges in my own relationship […]