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What the Way of the Wolf Can Teach Us About Sales

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning guys, And I’m back here to get after it. Just finished reading Jocko Willink’s daily routine last night before bed and it’s made me realise the need for greater discipline in my life. Still, so much to do…. And that’s why reading is feeling so valuable to me now – it’s unlocking new room […]

49 Timeless Selling Principles From Sandler Rules

Reading Time: 6 minutesHello guys, I’ve actually started turning off my alarm and seeing what happens when I allow my natural sleep cycle to take charge. This is as a consequence of listening to this book – which may bring to an end my ‘430’ wake up…I’m still yet to decide whether it will or not – but […]

How To Talk To Anyone Book Review, No Television, Isolation & Other Musings?

Reading Time: 5 minutesMorning all, The time today. The Value in Not Finishing a Book I didn’t expect to be writing this book review so quickly. But again, like Richard Dawkins God Delusion – I stopped seeing the value in this around halfway through… And after about another 15 minutes of sticking with it further, I decided to […]

How to Close That Sale With Brian Tracy?

Reading Time: 6 minutesHello guys, Here’s the time this morning… And I had something really interesting happen to me yesterday. I’ve got two new commission-only salespeople starting with me today, and it turns out their siblings – Josh and Allison from Alabama. I interviewed them both separately over the last week (neither knew they’d applied for the same […]

So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport –

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning all, It’s Monday 9.35am and I had something of a whirlwind this weekend in terms of reading… I managed to get through the entire book by Cal Newport ‘So Good They Can’t Ignore You’. I’m beginning to enjoy my walks in West Brompton cemetery that I’ll take in the morning.  I’ve actually yet to […]

My Food Prep Journey With KeyToFood

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe time is 12.29 and it’s a sunny Saturday afternoon. I’ve actually just come back from a long walk and I’m feeling ready to eat. Of course, I won’t be cooking – but I’ve still not got OUT of the habit of thinking ok ‘wtf’ am I going to cook. So let’s go through what’s […]

The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday Book Review & My Reflections

Reading Time: 5 minutesHey guys, The time and date are as per usual. So today I hit a milestone. I’ve listened to 26 hours of Audible this month – which is very likely my all-time record for a month. I aim to get it to 45 hours per month from June onwards (i.e. 90 minutes per day), with […]

How to Say No to Requests, Ideas, Proposals & More?

Reading Time: 6 minutes2 Hour Walks Hey guys I went for a 2-hour walk this morning which I used to part read, part think and take notes. I’m keeping up this walking thing and what an amazing gift it really is. I have an amazing team of people around me executing both high-level as well as more process-driven […]

The Power of Silence, Solitude & Reflection & How to Do It?

Reading Time: 5 minutesHey guys, I realised this morning when I was out for an almost 2-hour walk by myself (more on that later) that this ‘blog’ is becoming more of a journal, which I’ll write in and return from time to time to post thoughts, feelings and ideas that I have This is how I’m happiest and […]

Book Review: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport & 20 Hours of Audible In 10 Days

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Reading Time: 7 minutesHey guys Here’s the again and I wanted to share with you my thoughts after reading ‘Digital Minimalism’ and getting through (according to Audible) 14 hours of book reading in around the last 10 days. Digital Minimalism is an amazing read written by MIT professor Cal Newport about the power of using technology with intention […]

I’m Going to Give Up Watching TV for One Month

Reading Time: 7 minutesHey guys, I’m still reading Cal Newport’s ‘Deep Work’ and I’ve just had my mind blown again. Mind-blowing = when I hear something so radical but something that makes so much sense to me I can’t help but pay attention and take action. Time Sucking Television In the section ‘Quit Social Media’ one of the […]

How to Run 40 Seconds Per Km Faster in 14 Days?

Reading Time: 9 minutesHello guys, I’m beginning to find time for writing again.  (Today’s ticker) What a godsend it is to just block out social media and work on ‘deeper work’ as taken from the highly recommended ‘Deep Work’ by Cal Newport (thanks Zurab Kakabadze and Kevin Wimer) on this one. Whilst I’m not going to segway into […]

Why I Deleted All My Social Media Apps?

Reading Time: 8 minutesMorning all –  2 days since my last blog and I’ve been up since 415am (Jenny woke me up again) and this is the time now: So far this morning I’ve just come back from my morning exercise routine @7am (today a 30-minute run/4.14 per km followed by 200 reps). Whilst before that, I was […]

How to Build New Habits and Live Extremely Powerfully?

Reading Time: 3 minutesHello guys This is the time right now – and I’ve got until 5am before the next part of my schedule starts. A lot has actually changed even since day 1 of writing this blog – and I want to share my journey since I last wrote with you. So Covid-19 decimated my business when […]

My Biggest Business Mistakes of the Last Year

Reading Time: 5 minutesHey guys. Day 16 – back at it: I got to bed pretty late last night at midnight, but today I wanted to wake up ‘on time’, as yesterday I was up late – although I probably will crash later. I was out with my cousin Ajay last night, and we were discussing my agency […]

The Power Of Routine

Reading Time: 6 minutesHello all, It’s nice to hit the two week mark today. Day 14 is definitely a good show. Here’s what the gun says. Here is what is playing: I’ve got this on repeat using this plugin: Today I woke up and Strawberry is feeling a little poorly, and she has an exam today, so I […]

The Relentless Pursuit of Excellence

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys. You know what it is! Day 13 – let’s roll. This is today’s kick-off time. This was my wake up time: And the reason I got to bed so late was that I was doing this: Getting my medical license to start sparring , as I want to have a couple of amateur […]

The Drawbacks & Loneliness of Entrepreneurship

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s day 12. Here we go again – Kick off! Let’s see what ground I break over the next hour! Right now I’m sitting in the Hotel Ibis – and minus the overnight Spanish member of staff who works in two jobs and looks like a ghost each time I see him – It’s me […]

Why You Shouldn’t Build A $100 Million Startup Yet?

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys, Day 11! We’re doing it 😛 I managed to write yesterday’s blog in around 60 minutes in the end I believe – let’s see if I can hit the same stride today. I want to talk about the fallacies around building a $100 million startup now and why you probably should either: Never […]

How Posting on Facebook Every Day for 3+ Months ?

Reading Time: 6 minutesHi all, I’ve got 90 minutes to get this done as per yesterday’s blog post. I’ve set myself this new target as I ended up writing for over two hours, although I did several things in-between.  I want to focus on being more productive with this time I have now. I’ve made it to day […]

My Huge Failures in Trying to Build My Agency

Reading Time: 7 minutesDay 8 – really enjoying this so far! Started a little bit later than usual as I’ve got my head into work. It’s amazing to see that my little blogging group is active: And that people are holding themselves accountable. Creating powerful tribes like this is so powerful for progress. Well done all again! So […]

How to Cope With Burnout?

Reading Time: 5 minutesDay 7 – it’s officially been a week. Today/last night has been crazy. This is the first opportunity I’ve had to take a picture of my watch. As you can tell, I didn’t do my 430am start today. I was awake at 6.45 am and then out of bed at 8 am. Here’s why: Last […]

How to Wake Up Early Without Disturbing Your Partner?

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning all.  Day 6 rolls on: Got a new little mini-goal now.  Want to get to the hotel and be working by 5am tomorrow. Let’s see if I can post the watch for it tomorrow! It’s a bit of a struggle at the moment to get out of the door without waking my girlfriend up. […]

What It’s Like to Wake Up at 4:30 AM?

Reading Time: 7 minutesDay 5. We’re beginning to form the very early signs of habit building. Glad you’re with me on this journey. If you’re not – get ‘yo ass back to Day 1 lol! But check it: My 430am club on Whatsapp Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or you just don’t know who the f*ck […]

Coping With the Sleepless Nights

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s 5.13 am. I’m already sitting in the Hotel Ibis at this time: My Mac photobooth picture for you there Just finished watching The Last Witch Hunter on Netflix. Then I did a Google search of one of my favourite ‘wooden’ actors – Vin Diesel. I find him very watchable, and I think I’ll get […]

How to Be Ridiculously Productive?

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s actually day two and 5.31 pm. But I really feel like writing.  Even though I wrote 1.5k words earlier.  Having finished up my ‘52k words’ project around a month back – I’ve been looking for another writing project I can sink my teeth into. This is it. Blogging just for the sake of blogging. […]

The Future of Pearl Lemon

Reading Time: 7 minutesI’m back with day 2 :p Glad to be doing this with you folks. So right now it’s Sunday 9.10am: I’m sitting at the hub by Premier Inn next to West Brompton station: And check the upload speed of this place: It’s better than the internet I have at home (or in any other place […]

Committing to Writing Regular Content

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s Deepak Shukla here. Starting my attempt to publish one piece of content every single day. It’s Saturday, , at 540 AM, and I want to finally begin my journey of ‘journaling’.   Made my 430 AM start today. 🙂 Of producing content every single day – and aiming to write at least a minimum […]