Reading Time: 4 minutes Happy birthday to Unleash Your Awesome! It’s hard to believe that my first book is now a year old! The first month was a blur of activity – from shipping out copies of the book on launch day, to coming down with my first bout of Covid a week later and realising amidst the fug […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutes After the success of my article about my 5-star reads of 2023, I decided to create this: my 5-star reads of 2022! I read a tonne of books every year, and track all of my reads, from 5-star to 1-star, on Goodreads (check out my profile and reading lists here.) And because I religiously track
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Reading Time: 10 minutes I read a tonne of books every year, and track all of my reads, from 5-star to 1-star, on Goodreads (check out my profile and reading lists here.) And because I religiously track what I’ve read, I’m always asked for recommendations by friends and colleagues. So, I thought, “Why not put them all in one
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Get a glimpse behind the scenes at the recording of the audiobook version of Unleash Your Awesome. I absolutely love audiobooks, and listen to 30-40 each year. But until I did this project, I had absolutely no idea what it took to produce one! Check out the photos and videos to see what happens behind
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Which of your recent failures did decide on in advance? I know, you’re probably thinking, “Aren’t I meant to be planning for my successes, not my failures?” The short answer is, “No”! Read on to find out why you need to proactively plan your failures. The importance of planning for your failures If you don’t
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m a HUGE fan of the nana nap. There, I said it! I often see comments like “You can sleep when you’re dead” or “Sleep is for the weak”. As though this core human function is a bug, not a feature. I think that mindset is misguided, if not a touch ableist. Regular nana naps
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Life tends to serve me up metaphors at every turn – and the last day of 2021 gave me a fantastic object lesson in my attitude towards mistakes. The Great Pizza Disaster of 2021 I was given a pizza stone for Christmas, and was excited to take it for a whirl. My wonderful friends K
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Back in my early 20s, I was given a piece of advice, and told that it works in every situation that humans face. I initially couldn’t (or rather, wouldn’t!) accept the idea that it could apply in every context. And I tried really hard to imagine a situation in which it wouldn’t work… but even
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Reading Time: 6 minutes As I wrote the title to this article, I wondered how many people would read it and think that I had mis-spelled “business” as “busyness”. After all, a number of problems that we face in society today can be attributed to worshipping business as though it is the only legitimate human pursuit, and the only
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Reading Time: 7 minutes If there is one strategy that comes close to being a silver bullet for almost anything you want to achieve, it’s to use your strengths. It’s so important that I also covered it in my previous series on how to have great ideas. In this article, I’ll cover the vital importance of using your strengths,
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