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Are We Sleepwalking Through Life?
Quick Summary...In an effort to make my brain dribble out of my ears, I've been thinking a lot about thinking this week.It all started when I went on a rant about Primark and ASDA. I stopped halfway
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Why your projects are always late…
The optimism bias — what it is, and how to beat it so you can finish your book“It’ll take me a week, max, to do the final edit on my book,” I declared.Oh, how I’m laughing, hollowly and bitterly,
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The morning monster cure
Despite all my best intentions, I am truly horrible at getting up early in the morning.For a few months, I tried to be a 5 am person.There were a few of us in a mentoring group and we decided we wanted
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The Splendour Of Hard Things
It’s much easier to laze around on the sofa than it is to stand up and do the thing you need to do.Right? I'm extremely talented at lazing around, half-in and half-out of a box of Quality Street.We’re
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How To Outline Your Business Book Lightning Fast
Photo by Josep Castells on UnsplashQuick Summary...When you sit down to write a book and you realise just how much bloody hard work is involved, and you're staring at the Blank Page Of Doom in despair,
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Why aren’t you achieving your goals?
"Why aren't you achieving your goals?"That's the subject line of an email that arrived in my inbox from my good friend Yinka earlier this week.I'll be honest, it was like being punched in the stomach.
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Don’t write like you speak!
Oh my gosh, how many times have I heard the advice "write like you speak"?(So many, that if I had a spoon for every time I heard it, I'd never run out of teaspoons again. What happens to teaspoons?
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? Haunted by horrific howlers
Staring in horror at the book in front of me, my heart stopped for a moment.Hell, the whole world stopped – and I wondered if it'd ever start up again.I could not believe what I was seeing: the table
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Having a religious experience
Do you have a temple?An inner sanctum for thinking deep thoughts?Or are you constantly fighting an external cacophony, your attention fractured into a thousand shards, brittle and spiky?If you hope to
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Same-Same But Different
Today, I'm on a reading adventure in Bath.If you've never visited Bath, you must do so – not only is it a stunning city full of history and stories, it's also full of quirk.I'm here because for my 40th
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