The business world loves to talk about ways of hacking productivity or working long hours and throughout the night as some sort of badge of honour. Even one of my favourite motivational speakers Eric Thomas states that, “Sleep is for those people who are broke,” and so it’s no wonder why young people and entrepreneurs are convinced that good work … 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
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
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
What Next?
The older I get the more I find myself stressing out about the way people perceive me. Being twenty-five, I feel constantly on the cusp between a world where exploration and failures were acceptable and a world where I should become a responsible adult by finding a steady career and moving out of my parent’s home. “Man’s deepest fear is … Read More
Why We’re All Self-Employed
At some point or another, we’ve all felt underpaid for the value we create for our employers. The truth is, when you work for someone other than yourself you instantly become an investment for that company. Investments must then make more money than their upkeep; otherwise that’s just bad business. “We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace.” – … 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
What Marketers Can Learn From BGT Winners, Attraction
Shadow dancing act Attraction last night won the Britain’s Got Talent final. I’m not usually a fan of these reality TV talent-scouting shows but I have to say I was rather impressed by Attraction’s performance but even more so by the way they managed to win over the British public. Having recently read ‘Made to Stick’ by Chip and Dan … Read More