lifeoutside the lines

I just experienced a 300% increase in output as a direct result of hanging with a unique group of people and I have a theory as to why. For the most part, I don’t consider myself a runner. I jog somewhere between 3-5km a few times a week to maintain a base fitness level. Prior [...]

We have never met, but you have been a mentor and guiding light for me for many years. Your words changed my life when I watched your commencement address at Stanford. The way you summoned the courage to do what you loved, despite the pain and discrace of having apple stripped from you inspired me [...]

I was chatting with a friend today. She was worried about starting her own business because she wasn’t an ‘entrepreneur’. I asked her what an ‘entrepreneur’ was. She replied ‘someone creative who has new ideas all the time and is always creating something new’. I said ‘Oh…’ I asked ‘Do you think Warren Buffet is [...]

I was recently asked who were the people and what were the books that could highly recommend. Here they are: 1. My Dad. My dad joined the RAN when he was 15 as an apprentice shipwright and after retiring at 35, he, my Mum, and I embarked on a 7 year expedition to circumnavigate the [...]

I have a friend who is going through a hiccup professionally. She had the high flying corporate job, the perfect guy, world travel, parties, toys, money, popularity. On paper, life was perfect.  Her friends told her so. To her credit, she walked away from it all because something in her heart was telling her it wasn’t [...]

We are facing a shift in how we think about making a living. In the agricultural age, those who owned the land controlled the wealth. On that land, they could do what they wanted, grow crops, command rent, etc. They controlled their own means of production, and therefore the cash flowed to them. In the [...]

I have been using the phrase ‘Little Wins’ for about 10 years. My rationale was that celebrating lots of little successes regularly was way better than holding out to celebrate one big one, rarely. I have a short attention span and need to feel like I am getting somewhere or I loose interest. Plus, we [...]

I was chatting to a guy who reminded me of me 8 years ago. He is studying Entrepreneurship at Uni. I asked him why he was studying business and he said ‘because he wanted to be financially free’. I told him he was wasting his time, and that financial freedom was a total myth. The [...]

Mike Harris has created 3 Iconic billion pound brands and it seriously rocks my world every time I get the chance to chat with him. While he usually starts the brand building process by raising a cheeky £100M, he also has some tips for the rest of us. With more than a pinch of poetic [...]

We are facing a revolution in how we think about making a living. I often work with people who recognise that they have a particular set of skills, talents and expertise that are valuable to the world, yet they find themselves doing things for money that doesn’t excite them. Ironically the problem is, that in [...]