Nicholas Bate

Just One Thing, 17 of 101

Only copy to learn.

Then innovate to truly perform.

Just One Thing, 16 of 101

Revise your goals.

(Write them down.

Include numbers and measurables.

Keep them visible.

Start them)

Standards in a Covid World, 22

1. Respond to all business e-mail within 24h. Much of this can be simply be an acknowledgement plus an accurate assessment of when you will respond fully.
2. Then respond fully when you said you would.
3. Turn up on time. 
4. In the business meeting, contribute, tell it straight and record your actions.
5. And do the actions you said you would do.
6. Be loyal to those not present.
7. Alternate coffee/tea/soda with a glass of water.
8. Don't neglect a quality issue be it a mistake on a PPT slide nor a client who seems to be waiting too long for attention.
9. Focus. A 'brand re-fresh' is not needed. What is needed is some focus on the tasks in hand.
10. Consider a digital distraction as poison injected into your brain. It is.
11. Don't cherry-pick: do the tough, high value stuff. And do it early in the day. Then coffee, cup 3.
12. Do go fruit-picking though. Fresh air. Conversation through the mask. And the best of fresh fruit.
13. Greet people. Be interested in them. It’s harder in an increasingly exclusively digital world. And so it is even more valuable.
14. And not just for your network.
15. Recognise your organisation is not perfect. But it's better when you are better.
16. Now you are working at home, work out how you are going to do basic body maintenance.
17. The gym is optional, but movement is essential.
18. Now you are working at home, decide what is the mechanism for going home at a reasonable time and switching off from work. 
19. Floss. Not so much for the health benefits (which-of course-plenty debate). But to prove you can set up a daily habit.
20. Practise observing your moods, rather than being them.
21. Regularly review what is important to you.
22. Start stuff. Finish stuff. Feel good.

Just One Thing, 15 of 101

Overnight success takes a long, long time.

Thursday Melange, 19

 

1. How to Escape the Bunker.
2. Christmas presents 2020, solved.
3. The Writing Primer.
4. How to Start your Very Own Business.
5. plus The Start Up Myths
6. Stay STRONG
7. Crazy Bold Experiments
8. Just say NO to PPT
9. Post Covid Business Essentials.
10. The Marketing Primer.
11. Redundancy
12. Covid-19, 101
13. Hunter-Gatherer 21C
14. Tackling Stress.
15. Manage that career
16. Be Bold 101
17. You still haven’t read Being The Best?! (Back in stock on 24th)
18. Things They Don’t Teach at Business School
19. the secrets of success

 

Just One Thing, 14 of 101

What heals in a Covid world?

The Vaccines, sure.

But also: friendship, sunlight, moonlight, good food, walks, great books, sparky conversation, creating from art to walls.....allow time to heal. Daily. 

Just One Thing, 13 of 101

Being productive was never about being able to do more.

It’s about the courage, the real courage, to do significantly less.

TBC

In the meantime, You, Only Better

Just One Thing, 12 of 101

‘Monday’ cannot dictate your mood.

Be greater than the label.

TBC

In the meantime, You, Only Better

Just One Thing, 11 of 101

Practise the polite no which gets you the life affirming yes.

Sometimes the no is to others (to doing this additional project today, but certainly later this week)...

Sometimes to yourself (to Netflix until I’ve done 500 words on my novel)...

TBC

In the meantime, You, Only Better

Just One Thing, 10 of 101

Be able to manage your mood. Great natural mood enhancers are music, walks, reflection and practising choosing to be resilient. 

TBC

In the meantime, You, Only Better