Why Learning Is So Tiresome (And How to Identify and Overcome The Barriers)

We believe that we’re talented in some areas and not talented in others. However, a lot of this understanding of talent is an illusion. It’s based on...

The Dropout Factor: How to reduce dropout when teaching or learning

One of the unseen enemies of learning is dropout. Clients get into a course very excited to learn. Then they go off a cliff. They don’t show up as oft...

How to Outsmart Procrastination with the 9/10 Principle

We think procrastination means laziness. But often it’s just the first step that feels impossible. How do you make your clients move ahead quickly and...

Why "distraction" isn't usually the reason you can't focus

IF you ask someone why they can’t focus, they usually say they’re very distracted. But are we really distracted? Or is it congestion, instead? Let’s d...

Re-run 07 Sales Page

Re-run 06 U-turns: Why Almost Every Article Needs One To Create Drama

Re-run 05 Why Writing Down What Delights You Can Help With Anxiety and Stress

Re-run 04 Storytelling:Why Storytelling Needs The Thumpty-Thum-Thump-Thump

Re-run 03 How to Win Friends: The Hug, Hear, Help Method

Re-run 02 Pricing Strategy: How to Increase Prices from Left to Right (or Right to Left)

Re-run 01 The Elegant Strategy

How to Overcome Information Overload (And How To Do It Almost Overnight)

How I Overcame My Three Fears

When clients look at us, me in particular, they see an almost unblemished trail of success. But you can’t see the fear behind what we’ve been through....

How to stay calm when the world is falling apart around you

If you ask anybody, you will hear that things have gotten a lot worse. But is that the case? And do we have any control over what's happening around u...

Why We Write—Part 2

We sometimes believe we write for a client, or for a website. And that belief is true. Except, it’s not true for most of the time. There comes a time...

Why We Write: Part 1

Writing seems so laborious at times. We feel like giving up, but there’s a reason why we write. Actually, many reasons.

Why Every Day Learning Matters More Than We Think

We all seem to know how every day matters. However, what causes people to plateau suddently and how does every day activity help in avoiding that mess...

25 years of writing: Simple advice that will improve your articles

I’ve now been writing articles for 25 years. And in those 25 years I’ve learned some things that you may not always find on a writing site, or even in...

The Four Tyrannical Arms of Perfection: A Deeper Insight

We all want to be somehow perfect. It doesn’t matter that we know it’s not possible. In this podcast, we have four crazy arms of perfection brought to...

The Concept of Take Off-Speed (And How it Enables You to Manage Many Things All At Once)

If you feel overwhelmed and seem to get nothing much done, you’re not alone. That’s because many of us go around in circles. We never attain take-off...

The Five-Year Lease Concept (And How It Builds Resilience)

Do you sometimes think you have “shiny object syndrome”? Do you seem to hop from one thing to another, only to feel disappointed? What if you couldn’t...

Travel stories through India – another rollercoaster trip.

This is back to back travel series. First it was Europe, now it's India. Enjoy the journey!

How to become smarter by utilising the “Database Concept”

Imagine there are two computers. One computer is a standalone connected to nothing but the electrical supply. The second one is connected to a network...

Stories of travel through India, Singapore and France

This podcast is called the Three-Month Vacation, and yet we almost never cover vacation stories. Well, that’s about to change. Here are some stories f...

How to get clients: An open secret

How do you get clients? This is one question that repeats itself endlessly. You’d think the answer would be common knowledge by now, and it is. The an...

Burnout: Why friends and family are more likely to be early warning systems to avoid overwork

“Hard work” has never been considered a problem. If anything, we’re all told to work hard. How do you know when you’ve crossed the line from hard work...

How to get free of your phone addiction without software

It’s clearly impossible to avoid using a phone. Which is why software seems to come to the rescue. However, the way to avoid the phone (at least once...

How do you manage everything? Part 1

Podcasts, membership site, cartoons, photography, Whatsapp—the list goes on and on. And it’s puzzling to clients how I (Sean) manage so much. Well, th...

Re-run 07 The Five "Psychological Stages" of Entrepreneurship—And One That's More Scary Than The Rest

Re-Run 06 Why You Have to Keep Writing Articles (Even If You Have Written Articles for 20 Years)

Re-run05 Why does learning seem to take forever? The surprising reasons behind slow learning

Re-run 04 Why is Storytelling so Important in Marketing (and how to use it in your marketing)

Re-run 03 The Art of Praise (How to Give Genuine Praise)

Re-run 02 Three "Slightly Boring" Ways to Create Metaphors for Your Articles

Re-run 01 - How to stay on track with you goals, guest appearance by Keira Menon

How To Avoid Jet Lag

It’s that time of the year when many of us travel. If it’s even a short trip, we get jetlagged for days. How do you beat it? Here’s a theory based on...

Why Random, Tiny Projects are the Key to Future Business Growth

It's normal to want to wait for the perfect moment to start a project. However, that's usually a mistake. A tiny, random project can be started right...

The Power of Analogies (Part 3): How to transform analogies from tired to fresh

At times, you simply can’t think of an analogy, and you reach for something that’s been used many times before. However, there’s zero fun in using a t...

The Power of Analogies (Part 2): How to use everyday life to create stunning analogies

The Power of Analogies (Part 2): How to use everyday life to create stunning analogies Probably the biggest mistake that most of us make is that we tr...

The Power of Analogies (Part 1): Working Backwards

When we sit down to write an article, or design a presentation, we tend to slip in an analogy. However, most of the analogies that we seem to come up...

Why we lose motivation (and how a “base level of success” is crucial to keep going)

We start on a learning journey and then we quickly get lost. Why is this the case? We might have systems in place, reminders that keep going off, but...