Jeff Goins did a great episode of The Portfolio Life podcast a while back in which he talked about so-called ‘shadow careers’. A shadow career is that line of work you go into that is ‘close’ to what you actually want to do, but not quite it. I’ve written about this before, but to recap, …
It was Sunday night—a Sunday night just like this one. But back then, things were different. In the early afternoon I’d started to feel a slight discomfort. Heart palpitations. A little sweatiness of the palms. A strange taste in my mouth. Depending on how much caffeine I drank, this could get a lot worse. On …
Arrogance is one of those traits that we are meant to hide. ‘Don’t be arrogant’, you probably got told at one time or another. ‘It makes you look like a dick. People will hate you.’ Well, yes and no. Arrogance does make a person look like a dick in one sense. But it also paints …
In this episode I get into four rules I Tweeted earlier in the week about how you can master anything: – Learn to separate bullshit information from the good stuff – Find a person / people who are really good the thing you want to do – Follow exactly what they do – Repeat RELENTLESSLY …
‘Do it or don’t do it’ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art In the end, we either do it or we don’t do it. What is it? Anything. ‘It’ is any sort of action that will create change. Any action that will help us to build something. That will see us produce more than we …
Picture the scene. The sun is beating down. You are gazing out over the clear, azure Mediterranean sea. In your hand you hold an ice-cold cocktail. Next to you, a beautiful woman—your girlfriend (for this week, anyway) reclines, exposing her smooth, beautiful skin to the rays. Beep beep! Your iPhone, a top-of-the-range model in a …
Seeing as I keep going on about the need to build a personal brand online, and since I am doing that exact thing myself, I thought it would be useful to share a few of the mistakes I’ve made so that you know what to avoid. So here we go—my top 3 clangers, and why …
The other day I tweeted that everything is about sales. I was half right. The ‘everything is about sales’ trope is not a new one—I didn’t invent it. I tweeted it, as I have in the past, simply because ‘sales’ (the discipline) has been close to my heart since I first became a telesales operator in …
Buying a property sucks. Many, many people still seem to believe that buying a home is ‘the right thing to do’. It’s become an aspiration that is so ingrained into British and American culture that we regularly see articles by people complaining about how hard it is to ‘get on the property ladder.’ Well, it …
In this episode I talk in detail about the old adage that you are the 5 people you spend most time with. How true is it, and does it mean you should ruthlessly cut out anyone who isn’t a baller or a startup star? Remember, do sign up for my DAILY email – it’s packed …
