Nicholas Bate

Do You Really Think? 7

1. That you can ever know someone unless you have had some decent, deep and sprawling conversations, even debates?
2. You can access 100% bring-it-on energy if you are not getting enough sleep?
3. You'll release your full potential and get to grips with who you really unless you face some of your (minor) demons?
4. You can Inspire your children to the most effective behaviours if you don't demonstrate those yourself?
5. You can become an expert in something if you don't relentlessly practise that skill?
6. You can return to profitability by simply cutting out costs?
7. You can lead others if you are not passionate about something?

That's OK, then.

Tuesday 12

1. Get, no jump, no leap out of bed;
2. with a focus that is laser-like;
3. a determination which is unstoppable.
4. To turn a humble, ordinary (to many people) Tuesday…
5. …into something which:
6. -actually achieves a lot,
7. -improves the Lives of many,
8. -gets one or two to stop and think,
9. -a couple of others to become book-readers,
10. -someone to re-gain their passion for work,
11. -yet one other to drop-finally-their soul-destroying cynicism.
12. A great day to be at work.

Change The Game

1. Stop trying to find a publisher. Publish it yourself: start exploring with blurb.com.
2. Stop trying to earn more, to buy more, to stick more in a cupboard, to have to store more. Just say: "I'm satisfied".
3. Stop killing yourself on the stairmaster. Walk wherever you can. Which is further-a lot further- than you currently think you can.
4. Stop trying to hit the monthly target. Speak to customers about their needs, do a great job solving them and watch the money roll in.
5. Stop knowing they are wrong. Listen.
6. Stop saying you don't have time. And make choices. Agreed, often tough ones.
7. Stop checking your Blackberry. Change the World.

Tough & Turbulent Times 7

1. It probably won’t get any easier: so let that one go.
2. Instead:
3. Get fit and strong;
4. Physically and mentally.
5. So you can take whatever cr*p is thrown at you.
6. And even begin to enjoy it.
7. In fact, downright relish it: bring it on!

Careful! 7

Are you too busy to notice that you are:

1. busy but not productive?
2. fit but not well?
3. making money but not wealthy?
4. reading but not learning?
5. at yoga but not at peace? 
6. playing Lego with the children but not bonding? 
7. Blackberrying but not communicating?

Read This Quote

and choose the less crowded group.

The 180 Degree Rule In Film-Making...

and when to break it.

Dealey Plaza, 22 November 1963: What About If...

you could really reconstruct who was there that day. Accurately and completely?

What's The Answer? 7

1. Sit still and quietly for 5 minutes and it will come to you.
2. Write three pages long-hand, very fast and you'll get an insight.
3. Take a walk and kick a ball around or shoot some basketball; that'll tell you.
4. Listen to Sinatra; the answer is always in the lyrics.
5. Look her in the eyes whilst holding her hands; now it's clear.
6. Open a page at random in the nearest book. Half way down the page is a clue.
7. Ask your dog; he's always known if only you'd listen.

The Seven Levels of Photography

1. The Snap. Just capture the moment. Point and click. It's a Moose isn't it? What more do you want? Will be shared in the bar that evening. With laughs and mojitos.
2. The iPhone Snap. The snap but cooler. No unnecessary weight. Able to text while lining up the shot. And ring for help while bear approaches.
3. The Picture. Bit of simple preparation e.g. sun behind the photographer. Sun dappled water etc. Will be sorted and kept in carefully annotated digital album.
4. The Photograph. Chosen carefully. Much functionality of digital camera understood. Framing done carefully. Some will be printed and framed and hung in the den. Others will become Christmas cards.
5. The Shoot. The picture will be taken and re-taken until perfect. A beautiful girlfriend will sit restlessly on a rock nearby. Later editing may well be carried out to enhance the beauty of Banff, Alberta, Canada.
6. The 'Artist at Work'. Tripod, full portfolio of lenses will be in use. Nothing will be 'as is', all will be 'an impression'.
7. Camera Nullus. Observe, enjoy and be in the moment.