Why going backwards is often a good sign of progress

When we think about the journey of a thousand miles, we often assume it means constant forward movement. We picture ourselves taking one step after an...

How to Make Additional Time Out of Thin Air.

There's hardly anyone who says they have loads of time. We all want 36 hours per day and eight days a week, and yet most of the time the time we so de...

Why Self-Study Works for Some People and Fails Miserably for Others

We believe coaching is often the best approach but it's not always the case. You might find an average coach and make little progress or you could hav...

Why all the productivity in the world may not matter after all

You are told that you have to be productive, but how productive is productive? We have been at work for close to 26 years, and we still have a full da...

Why Feedback Barely Helps Progress (And Why "Instant Feedback" is Crucial, Instead).

If you ask most people what is the core of learning, they will give you something banal like hard work or practise; however, they will also state that...

Why Habits Fail Consistently (And Why You Need a Habit System Instead)

Most of us still accept the idea that you need 21 days to build a habit. Yet, most habits can fall apart even if you labour at them with dedication. T...

Why Habit-Change Is Almost Always Temporary (And How to Create Lasting Habits)

If habit change is really about personal effort, why do so many carefully built habits quietly fall over the cliff? The answer isn't motivation and it...

How to speed up answering e-mail—and everyday messages as well

We are constantly typing, whether it's on our phone or at the computer. Sometimes, it's just a simple message; at other times, it is a bunch of emails...

Re-Run 007 Why Willpower is Weak (And How Numbers Help You Stay on Track Instead)

Re-run 06 How To Become More Productive (While Reducing Overwhelm)

Re-run 05 How To Calm Your Nerves Before A Speaking Opportunity

Re-run 005 How To Calm Your Nerves Before A Speaking Opportunity

Re-run 004 Why Business Philosophy Creates A Uniqueness Factor (Even When Clients Don't Know You At All)

Re-Run 003 Why Negotiation Consistently Fails In Real-World Scenario

Re-Run 002 "Why You Need To Get Off The Internet – And Meet Real People Instead"

Re-run 01 Why Would They Choose Me? Getting Past A Mental Block

How a slight "problem-change" can dramatically make a massive difference to your business model.

What if the secret to growing your business isn't changing your product, but changing the problem it solves? This article takes you on a surprising jo...

How to explain concepts elegantly (and keep the attention of your audience)

We all seem to believe that there's nothing left to explain. There are millions of articles, books and stories out there. Yet, there's always a way to...

Why Habits Can Be Temporary and Environment Matters More, Instead.

Are you really in charge when it comes to changing your habits?.While self-help books promise transformation, true change often stems from a shift in...

How to Use Grumpy People to Find Your Uniqueness

You and I avoid grumpy people, if we can. However, when those grumps happen to be your prospects or clients, you better pay close attention. Why? Beca...

Why Learning Is So Tiresome (And How to Identify and Overcome The Barriers)

We believe that we're talented in some areas and not talented in others. However, a lot of this understanding of talent is an illusion. It's based on...

The Dropout Factor: How to reduce dropout when teaching or learning

One of the unseen enemies of learning is dropout. Clients get into a course very excited to learn. Then they go off a cliff. They don't show up as oft...

How to Outsmart Procrastination with the 9/10 Principle

We think procrastination means laziness. But often it's just the first step that feels impossible. How do you make your clients move ahead quickly and...

Why "distraction" isn't usually the reason you can't focus

IF you ask someone why they can't focus, they usually say they're very distracted. But are we really distracted? Or is it congestion, instead? Let's d...

Re-run 07 Sales Page

Re-run 06 U-turns: Why Almost Every Article Needs One To Create Drama

Re-run 05 Why Writing Down What Delights You Can Help With Anxiety and Stress

Re-run 04 Storytelling:Why Storytelling Needs The Thumpty-Thum-Thump-Thump

Re-run 03 How to Win Friends: The Hug, Hear, Help Method

Re-run 02 Pricing Strategy: How to Increase Prices from Left to Right (or Right to Left)

Re-run 01 The Elegant Strategy

How to Overcome Information Overload (And How To Do It Almost Overnight)

How I Overcame My Three Fears

When clients look at us, me in particular, they see an almost unblemished trail of success. But you can't see the fear behind what we've been through....

How to stay calm when the world is falling apart around you

If you ask anybody, you will hear that things have gotten a lot worse. But is that the case? And do we have any control over what's happening around u...

Why We Write—Part 2

We sometimes believe we write for a client, or for a website. And that belief is true. Except, it's not true for most of the time. There comes a time...

Why We Write: Part 1

Writing seems so laborious at times. We feel like giving up, but there's a reason why we write. Actually, many reasons.

Why Every Day Learning Matters More Than We Think

We all seem to know how every day matters. However, what causes people to plateau suddently and how does every day activity help in avoiding that mess...

25 years of writing: Simple advice that will improve your articles

I've now been writing articles for 25 years. And in those 25 years I've learned some things that you may not always find on a writing site, or even in...

The Four Tyrannical Arms of Perfection: A Deeper Insight

We all want to be somehow perfect. It doesn't matter that we know it's not possible. In this podcast, we have four crazy arms of perfection brought to...

The Concept of Take Off-Speed (And How it Enables You to Manage Many Things All At Once)

If you feel overwhelmed and seem to get nothing much done, you're not alone. That's because many of us go around in circles. We never attain take-off...

The Five-Year Lease Concept (And How It Builds Resilience)

Do you sometimes think you have "shiny object syndrome"? Do you seem to hop from one thing to another, only to feel disappointed? What if you couldn't...