In this episode Cem and Wayne take a back seat to interview English Monroe, Creative Director of FIVEPOUNDTEE.COM to discuss why we need to upgrade our thinking in order to reach our full potential. English talks about his journey through music, mma and fashion, battling depression and suicidal thoughts and how he used the internet as a resource to not … 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
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
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
Why You Need To Get Out Of Your Mental Set-Point
The Metabolic Set Point Theory states that the body has a natural tendency to maintain a specific weight and will adjust internal body processes accordingly. If our bodies goes above or below our set-point range, our metabolism will speed up or slow down to get our weight back in line, which is why we find it so difficult to shift … Read More
6 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Iron Man
1. Create Your Own Thick Skin Entrepreneurs like artists are brave enough to bare their souls in the hope of creating something that rocks the world. Anyone with the guts to create will certainly come up against their fair share of critics; building a tough skin helps to keep out the doubters and keep you stomping forward. 2. Use Your … 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
From chronic worrier to chronic optimist
People who worry are hugely creative, they can think up an endless loop of self-perpetuating worries for why they or their ideas are likely to fail and so they successfully scare themselves away from actually trying. This irrational worrying is similar to that of superstitions in which something trivial can become the bearer of bad luck. “When a worry is … Read More
The Negative Bias
Everyday when I sit down to write the following thoughts cross my mind… Does anybody care about what I have to say? Am I wasting my time? Will anybody even read it? Is it worth the effort? Am I just being egotistic? Our brains constantly search for things to think about and unfortunately for us these tend to bias toward … Read More