How do you get client testimonials? How do you ask a customer for a case study testimonial? When it comes to client testimonials, we tend to end up with rambling, not so great testimonials. How do we get powerful experiences, instead of watered-down testimonials? Here are three quick (and relatively easy) ways to go about […]
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India Travel Stories: The Goa Cashew Nut story
The Cashew nut story The flight from Ahmedabad to Goa is a relatively short one, but enough for a meal onboard. After a magnificent trip to Rajasthan, we were finally on our way to Goa. Goa is on the west coast of India, flanked by endless white-sand beaches, coconut trees and a largely easy going […]
[Continue reading...]Lockdown Gratitude From New Zealand
It feels difficult to feel any gratitude when you’re cooped up. Yet, these weeks in relative isolation have also brought unexpected joy. This is a small insight into how it has changed our personal live and even the structure of our online courses. Right click to save this episode. It’s not easy to be in […]
[Continue reading...]How To Speed Up Your Article Writing Using “Accidental Research”
How can you write an article faster? How can you increase your writing speed? One of the most draining aspects of article writing is the research that we need to put into writing an article. No matter how hard we try, we end up spending hours, even days digging up for the right research. But […]
[Continue reading...]Mindset Vs Skillset: Which One Slows You Down?
What is a psychological mindset? When you are starting up in business what is more important the mindset or the skillset? We’ve been told time and time again that our mindset need to change in order to change our skillset. But what if it’s the other way around? Why are we still stuck despite making […]
[Continue reading...]Energy Management: 3 Ways To Rapidly Transition From Task To Task (And Avoid Getting Distracted In The Switchover)
How do we manage our energy in business? When are you and I the most distracted? Often, it’s right after you’ve finished one task and on your way to start another. You’ve planned your day well, but you lose your momentum and before you know it, you’re in a big doom loop. How do you […]
[Continue reading...]Discipline vs Deadline (And Why Time Management Fails)
What is time management? Why do we failing to manage our time in business? 2- Discipline vs Deadline If you look at disciplined people for inspiration, they’ll often mislead you. Take author Dan Brown, for example. He wakes up every day at 4 am, 365 days a year and writes. “Even on Christmas Day”, he emphasises. […]
[Continue reading...]How Limitations Create Productivity (Without Spending More Time)
How can a business improve productivity? What is productivity and how you increase your productivity without wasting time? 3 – How Limitations Create Superior Work The way most cities solve traffic problems is to build more roads. If you live in a congested city, you know adding more roads only puts more cars on the […]
[Continue reading...]The Stockdale Paradox: The Optimists Or The Pessimists—Who Survives When Chaos Is Rampant?
Are optimists more successful than pessimists? What sort of entrepreneur do well in business? And especially when there is chaos. Imagine you are a prisoner of war. You’re thrown into an isolation space, not just for a week, or month, but for an entire year. All the while you’re being tortured and despair seems to […]
[Continue reading...]What I learned last year (And Have To Keep Reminding Myself All Year)
Can you learn something new every year? And how do use that learning to improve yourself? We all get into argumentative situations. Yet, these situations almost always leave us worse off than before. How can we learn to negotiate instead of creating confrontation, and end up even better off than before? That’s one of the […]
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