What will you do next week to build your marketing?
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Today I’m talking about a set of emails from Mario. Mario emailed me and said: I started my business (development shop) last year and hired two developers to help me with the projects, I want to grow my business. Lately I’m getting trouble to get more leads (and projects) and now most of my revenue…
What is Extreme Programming and How Do You Do It?
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One of the discussions I’ve had many times with clients has circled the topic of the decisions we make today in our work and how it will affect the cost of future work. We are always endeavouring to not paint ourselves into a corner. Common wisdom would say this is impossible, at least the common…
It takes 10 Constraints and 1 Action to be Awesome
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Over the last few weeks we’ve covered a bunch of content out of my new book Analogue Productivity, which is all about bringing more value to your work by embracing the constraints of a pen and paper. To start there are 10 key constraints that I use when choosing a productivity system and getting awesome…
Should I Read it Episode 2: Should You Read Do the Work by Steven Pressfield?
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Today we look at Do The Work by Steven Pressfield. See the show notes below. Read the full review of Do The Work Purchase Do The Work on Amazon Purchase Pressfields other book The War of Art on Amazon Other references Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday Extreme Programming Joanna Penn on 20 books to $50k
If you want to get more done, plan your day based on energy
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Just like a muscle, our brains only have so much energy. We can’t sit and focus for hours without end. Most research shows us that we have about 50 minutes of focus followed by a 15 – 20 minute break. We can follow this cycle for around three hours and then we’re fried. We had…
If you don’t write it down, you’ll never do it so stop being lazy
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One of the tenets of most productivity systems is that you need to capture everything. While I don’t go quite that far and truly capture everything, I capture most stuff. One of the best phrases I found to get this point across was written by Tom Clancy and said by his main character Jack Ryan.…
Freelance Saturdays 002 – April 14 2018
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Welcome to Freelance Saturday’s you’re weekly dose of good reading to help you run your business better. A Professional Scrum Master’s Best Advice for a Productive Team w/ Lucas Smith (TPS189) — The Productivity Show | Getting Things Done (GTD) | Time Management | Evernote — Overcast Watch next Thursday for a review of Extreme…
Having Alternate Plans
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The problem that a lot of businesses have is that they always want to assume that everything is going to go aces all day. That they’ll be maximally productive all the time. Oh and don’t forget the unicorn tears that they drink at their fancy desk in the glass cube that happens to be dog…
If You Want to Stand Out You Need A Badass Brand
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We all want to stand out from the crowd. We’re not interested in being average. Average for business is scraping by, hitting up a bunch of networking events hoping that this time something interesting will happen that will help our business break out. There is also an audio version of this you can listen to…
Your Productivity System Doesn’t Matter If you Can’t Plan To NOW
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I said in the Key Concept of Making Decisions, that if I touch a task three times I force myself to do it that week or push it off to my next quarterly planning cycle. That quarterly planning cycle is where I ask myself this question. “Given the resources I have and the time I…
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