Bushidō (武士道?), Literally “the way of the warrior,” is a Japanese word for the way of the Samurai (to serve) life. Having just finished reading Bushido, the Soul of Japan, which is available for free in public domain, it got me thinking about entrepreneurship in the digital economy and how we can apply these ancient moral codes (not the killing parts) to … 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
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
Building A Business To Fund Your Passion
Cem and Wayne introduce themselves to you in this first episode of Powerful Nonsense Podcast and present questions and views on how to build a business to fund your passions including topics such as; finding your ‘why’ for what you do, minimum viable living and learning how to live on less, and the importance of building a mastermind group / … 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
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
Finding The Next Step
Most people are aware that starting a business and working for yourself has the potential to become your get out of jail free card from the regular nine to five but the thing that holds most people back when they have a money making idea is knowing what to do next. Most of my friends are full of ideas for … Read More
Self-Fulfilling Unemployment
Whether you’re at school, college or university it’s pretty likely you’ve been told by your teacher, parent or any other scaremonger just how difficult it will be to find a job once you leave, but can all this negativity be having a subconscious effect on our ability to actually find work? In 1968, psychologist Robert Rosenthal walked in to a … Read More
YOLO, Unemployment and Concentration Camps
Since leaving university, I myself and several of my close friends have experienced bouts of depression whilst being unemployed, but can a lack of nine to five really be what’s getting us down or is there something else that’s actually missing? It’s wasn’t until I recently picked up the book ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ by Viktor Frankl that I realised … Read More