Entrepreneurs must ensure that their health is their number one priority. If you are not healthy in both body and mind, your business will not exist in most cases. I believe that a “good’ or “super productive” day is something that we manufacture through preparation and a series of healthy habits that gets our mind and body fired up to … 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
New! Powerful Nonsense Podcast.
The new Powerful Nonsense Podcast is now live! Every fortnight Wayne & I will talk entrepreneurship, mindfulness and getting ahead in the digital economy. In no way do we believe we have all the answers, we just enjoy chatting about this stuff and hope that there may be some golden nuggets of information amongst our nattering that may be 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
Delay Gratification By Learning To Trust Yourself
We live in a society that demands instant gratification. Whether it’s through online shopping, gambling or porn, we all want something yesterday. A recent study showed that our inability to forgo a smaller reward now for a larger reward in the future may depend on how trustworthy the person perceives the reward-giver to be, but what if the reward giver … Read More
Stop Creating Insecurity Work
Humans have a great capacity for avoidance. Whether it’s signing up for the gym or finding the time to write that novel you’ve been thinking about for the past four years, whenever the possibility of failure is present so is our ability to create insecurity work. Insecurity work is the kind of stuff that feels productive but in fact has … Read More
The Business Card Mentality
This week I met up with one of my closest friends who has started his own business. We got chatting and he told me that he was finding it really tough now that he had officially “started trading.” “Cem, I think I need to hire some interns.” It was there that I realised he was suffering from what I’m going … Read More
Thank Your Critic
We often take criticism as a personal attack upon our character and abilities, but shouldn’t we really be putting a lid on our egos in return for the possibility of personal growth? There have been many times in my life where someone has criticised the way I write, the way I talk or even the way I look but as … Read More
Why you need to start throwing away negative thoughts – literally
We are all plagued by negative thoughts – they’re part of our nature, but it’s the way in which we process them that makes all the difference. A recent study found that by literally throwing away pessimistic thoughts, participants mentally discarded the thoughts as well. “When they threw their thoughts away, they didn’t consider them anymore, whether they were positive … Read More
Making your past useful
You hear it all the time, someone complaining about how they would do things differently if only they were back at school, didn’t have kids or if they were ten years younger, but why are we so quick to overlook the now? It’s easy to complain about what you coulda shoulda done – everyones has regrets, but if years later … Read More