September 2009
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Developing a business mindset - Mental activity...
In order to start acting like a businessman you need to start thinking like one. A neat idea we picked up from one of our excellent mentors, Richard Hanage is to create and follow a mental activity model. The reason I love this is that it’s proactive rather than reactive!
The idea is that you create a complete list (or mindmap) of things which are necessary to the general running &...
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Book review - "The beermat entrepreneur"
Having seen the inspirational Mike Southon at this years software-orientated conference - Thinking Digital, it was great to finally get round to reading his book “The beermat entrepreneur”. Anyone who knows me and my brother will see how appealing that book title is. Who doesn’t love having business ideas down the pub - hairbrained or not!
His book describes the journey from a...
1DayLater to speak at the Durham Entrepreneurs...
Never one to turn down an opportunity to put the heebies in my jeebies, I’ve agreed to speak at the Durham Entrepreneurs Society launch event. In a short space of time, the Durham clan have grown to become and official part of their University with around 200 members, and have even debated in the House of Lords - legendary.
Ultimately the society aims to provide inspirational speakers,...
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Kingpin marketing competition
Great news guys! 1DayLater has been shortlisted for the Kingpin Intelligence competition! Kingpin are a London based marketing agency that focusses on tech, and their competition could see 1DayLater take £7,500 of said marketing to help us launch with style.
To win we will compete against 5 other companies with a 2 minute pitch, there’s to be no Powerpoint and we must sell the business and...
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Scrap your lists, use a mindmap
As we’ve mentioned before, a huge part of good motivation is to have obtainable, clearly defined goals - and that’s why I love writing lists. A decent list is a wonderful thing, it can:
Aid your memory
Help you prioritise tasks
Improved your focus
Stop you wasting time
Of course, once you try to show what needs to be done with the usual tools (adding notes*, dates, bolding,...
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Improving Concentration... Part 2
While it’s all good and well to speculate about the why’s and how’s of concentration (and distraction) I’d like to explore the ways I boost my productivity and “knuckle down” to get some great work done.
Working like a geek - at night
If you leave us geeks to work how and when we want, I’d confidently say that most of us would end up working the...
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Improving Concentration...Part 1
I’ve always been prone to distractions and daydreaming. At primary school I was that wierd starry eyed kid who was always wandering off where they shouldn’t, or being taken to the nurses office because I’d ran sideways into a lamp post.
Now this isn’t what you need if you have some sort of hardcore work task to get done. The great news though is that improving...
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16 Basic Desires
Motivation fascinates me. I’m intrigued by the driving forces which influence the way we act and the decisions we take - like the decision to start a business.
It has been found that 16 basic intrinsic desires drive nearly all human behaviour:
Acceptance, the need for approval
Curiosity, the need to think
Eating, the need for food
Family, the need to raise children
Honor,...