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
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
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
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
Game Changer Reading List Jan-Sep 2013
So here it is, my ultimate resolution reading list from January 2013 until now. I hope you can find at least one book amongst these that can help you get closer to the goals you want to achieve in your life. All of these books can be bought new, second hand or as Ebooks on Amazon. All I can say … Read More
Forget About Your Past & Read Yourself Into Your Future
If you haven’t seen Eric Thomas’ Game Changer video from this morning I suggest you watch it. In his latest video he talks about the importance of reading, not for school or college or because your parents say you should but for yourself and off your own back. On the 31st of Decemeber 2012, I made a New Year’s resolution … Read More
Should I work for free?
Working for a youth volunteering charity I’m used to young people asking why on earth they should ‘work for free.’ Firstly, volunteering is not work and secondly just because you’re not being paid in pound sterling doesn’t mean you’re not getting something out of it. Just last week my gym manager was taking photos of his studio on his iPhone … Read More
Start Investing In Your Estate of Mind
Our minds are a fertile land waiting to be built upon, yet without the books and mortarboards the value of our lives can depreciate greatly and our capacity for growth and understanding can become extremely under utilised. Humans are composed of a series of “states of minds,” a cluster of neural firing patterns that create a persons behaviours, feelings and … Read More
8 Videos That Will Change The Way You Think About Education
A revolution in education is coming. Young people are at the heart of an economy falling away from a system that is fast becoming redundant. Part of the reason for the high unemployment rate and lack of entrepreneurship across the world can be blamed on the saturation of numb conformist workers nurtured in schools to serve the industrial economy. Millions … Read More