#0580 Adding Soul
My 18 year old daughter hosted a pool party this summer for a bunch of her girlfriends. For the most part, it was the sound of music blasting in the background and a dozen voices…
Category: Writing
#0503 It’s All Gibberish
Anyone who has a deep understanding in a particular field of knowledge is in danger of overusing their expertise. How many times have you been subjected to mountains of technical data that was just far…
#0500 Five Hundred
Halfway there. Seth Godin once wrote that you have to get past the first thousand blogs to get the to the good stuff. It felt impossible at the start but here I am at 500…
#0495 Leading with a Story
It was pitch black as we dangled upside down in a car held in only by our seatbelts, contemplating for a moment if this was the end for me or my buddies. Were they all…
#0464 Pay Attention
One cannot simply ask the audience to pay attention, one must earn it. I don’t know why I wrote that sentence using posh language but maybe subconsciously I did so to make you take notice,…
#0402 Conserving Energy
Subconsciously I will ignore you, sometimes on purpose. The human brain on a normal day will consume 20% of your total energy just keeping you alive. Any extra to that can feel exhausting so by…
#0400 Moments
Yesterday my daughter turned 17, today the blog turns 400. As humans we like to celebrate pretty much anything, birthdays, religious holidays, anniversaries, Fridays, anything. Let me remind you to celebrate your business wins too….
#0379 All the Senses
Fava Beans take me back to my Compare’s kitchen table age 9ish.Salt-N-Pepa Push It transports me to summer 1989 on the dance floor with my mate Paul as DJ.The smell of red pasta sauce teleports…
#0376 Pondering AI
Artificial Intelligence too is biased. From the designers, the coders and the input feeds unconsciously enforcing their views on what is right and what is wrong. It will eloquently merge the collective and continue to…
#0374 Join the Dots
Thanks to a long line of bald men in my family, I have been shaving what is left on my noggin. During the winter months I lose a lot of heat so I wear a…
#0358 Control the Narrative
If you ask 3 of your closest friends to describe you, the responses will be deep, varied and most likely heart warming. Ask 50 random people on the street and those responses will vary considerably,…
#0349 Storys Told
Elders around campfires, hieroglyphics, books, newspapers, internet, AI. Throughout time we have advanced the way we share information. From local to global, painstakingly slow to almost instant. You would not have an operation without anaesthesia….
#344 Be Generous
Give it all away. People ask me what they should write about or share on social. In a business context my response is to share your knowledge and experience freely, without reservation or fear. There…
#0335 Overnight Success
Be prolific with your content output while no one is looking. The act of doing so consistently will improve the quality by default. By the time people notice, you will be putting out high quality…
#0324 Try Stopping Me
Boom!! And just like that large percentage of you will have made your decision. The choice to stay and read on or move on. Instinctively, we are constantly making decisions as to whether or not…
#0321 Nothing
When I suggest professionals write as part of their brand building the very thought brings a sense of fear that they have nothing to say. Yet these same people can stand in front of a…
#0320 Something
This may be my shortest post ever. Why? Brain fog post break. Why post? Because writing takes consistency and better to write something than nothing as the act of doing so makes the next one…
#0312 Story Adds Value
Last night I gave my family a choice of two dinners. Smoked artisan Italian sausage made with grass fed, farm reared pork on a bed of vine ripened Roma tomatoes and sweet red onion. Layered…
#0309 Order
In the Principles of IMPART I talk about the importance of delivering information in a certain order for maximum impact. Amplifying the pain before you talk about the transformation increases the desire for the end…
#0299 Filters
If you are trying to please everyone you will fail. There will be many that will not understand, get what you are trying to do, appreciate what you put out there. Sometimes you will be…