Happy New Year and welcome to 2012! This is the time when we’re tempted to define all sorts of wonderful wishes, hopes and dreams for the year. The tricky bit of course is maintaining momentum on that stuff that we want – once life gets busy or the going gets tough. Psychologies magazine to the [...]
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Losing a hero is tough…
Posted by John on October 7th, 2011
Today, I am still reeling from the news of Steve Jobs’ death. Losing a hero is tough and Steve has been a hero of mine for many years – from my time as a software geek to my life now, writing and running my own business. Yesterday when I should have been writing my new [...]
My great motivational speech: you’re going to die
Posted by John on September 12th, 2011
I’m not your typical motivational speaker. I’m not Tony Robbins (the big guy with the teeth and the headset) and I don’t try to be (not least because I’m over a foot shorter than him). And yet I often get asked to speak. Earlier this year one of those invitations was from the lovely, wise, and somewhat [...]
Postcard from Bali
Posted by John on June 15th, 2011
This is a copy of my email newsletter sent at the end of a month living and working in Bali. The wonderful thing about creating your own business today is that you can design it to be portable. All you need is a laptop computer, a mobile phone, and a WiFi connection, and you can [...]
Who do you hate? (Or “How to get unstuck”)
Posted by John on January 23rd, 2011
Here at Screw Work Let’s Play HQ we’ve been busy getting ready for the Screw Work Let’s Play Programme which starts tomorrow. On the 8 week programme we deal a lot with the internal blocks that stop people getting the working lives they want. As a result, we’ve learned a lot about why people get [...]
