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
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
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
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
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
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
9,159 Days of Eating
Yesterday I did my first ever 24 hour fast. I’m not religious and I’m not a masochist, I did it just because I wanted to prove to myself that I could. Having read up a little bit about the many health benefits of intermittent fasting, I was surprised that many of my initial changes were not physical but in fact … Read More
Falling Off The Conveyor Belt
This week thousands of young people around the UK received their A level results and as usual the papers have been out in full patrol sharing stories about the A grade prodigies who will now go on to the worlds best universities, find their dream job and have the perfect life. On the other hand, there will also be thousands … 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