Yesterday I watched the film ‘Her’ by Spike Jonze about a lonely writer who develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system, designed to meet his every need. Like all good films, it got me thinking… At one point OS1 (his female operating system) says that she wants to “feel everything” and so it’s up to Theodore (played … Read More
I Stole From The Science Museum & Paid For It
Most people’s relationship with money stems from their early years. I didn’t know this until I started reading Suze Orman’s book, “The 9 Steps To Financial Freedom,” and then things started coming together. “The road to financial freedom begins not in a bank or in the financial planner’s office, but in your head.” – Suze Orman Ever since I was … Read More
Why You Need To Create Success Triggers
One of the first and hardest steps in entrepreneurship is believing that it’s a viable means of earning and income. With years of encoding through school and at home, most of us assume that creating a business or charging someone for our skills or services is either impossible or way out of our comforts zone and so it’s up to … Read More
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Stay Buoyant
For those starting out in entrepreneurship, it’s normal to feel as if you’re swimming upstream, which is why it’s so important to learn how to stay afloat and keep kicking. In Daniel Pink’s book “To Sell Is Human” he talks about there being two key ingredients to surviving the leap: 1. The ability to stay afloat amongst the onslaught of … Read More
From Desire To Must
One of the biggest problems that stands in the way of making the jump from a regular 9-5 to entrepreneurship is that you don’t have to. It’s much easier to get the grades and join a system that has already been built for you. A lot of the time many of us dream about setting our own working hours, being … Read More
Addicted To Authority
From the moment we’re born and throughout our education our brains are fired and wired to seek authority. Authority is the invisible structure that governs what we feel and how we live our lives but take it away and we quickly feel vulnerable and isolated. The biggest problem with authority is that it doesn’t innovate. For years we have been … Read More
Balancing Balls
It’s all well and good making plans for a year of great intentions but if your focus is on doing the things that you’ve been educated to think are important but don’t really matter in the wider scope of things, then you’re simply wasting another year. “Better to have a short life doing something that is full of what you … Read More
That’s Life… Or is it?
This New Year, young people across the world will continue to fight for jobs, to buy their first homes and to create new businesses but for those who have already admitted defeat two words will suffice… That’s Life. This simple but toxic phrase has become a common staple in the vocabulary of those who have given up taking responsibility for … Read More
Get Scrappy Or Go Without
One of the biggest problems young people face when they leave education is that they have never been taught how to monetise their skill sets other than working for somebody else. Unfortunately, as businesses continue to embrace new technologies the number of jobs roles available in unspecialised industries are in a steady decline. Young people in the digital economy need … Read More
Misunderstanding Fear
We live in a fear-based culture that holds most people ransom to a life of mediocrity and deathbed regrets but what is fear and can we learn to walk through it? Fear in scientific terms is a chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals that cause a racing heart, fast breathing and … Read More