Part three of zoo week is the lions. Nigel on why they’d rather be right than happy, and the cage they build round themselves.
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Episode 011: People Say We Monkey Around
Part two of zookeeper week covers monkeys, the ideas people who need structure and want applause every time they take the bins out.
Episode 010: Its A Zoo Around Here
Our first listener question came from a jacuzzi in Mexico, and it got Nigel explaining the animals from his book It’s a Zoo Around Here.
Episode 009: The One About Having A Vision
Nigel and I on having a vision bigger than a goal, and why keeping it to yourself gets you nowhere.
Episode 008: Are To Do Lists a BAD Idea?
Nigel writes his four things down before bed, while I run my day off a Kanban board with only one job in progress.
Episode 007: SMART Goals Don’t Work… These Do (Part 2)
Part two of SMARTER goals: Nigel gets to his reward, I explain why I cut SMART down instead, and we nearly agree.
The Story of The Streets and the song I can never finish
How Mike Skinner turned a bedroom in Birmingham into a classic, and why his weaknesses became the thing that made him.
Episode 006: SMART Goals Don’t Work… These Do (Part 1)
Nigel and I swapped our mission statements, then he started pulling SMART goals apart, starting with his 33-inch trousers.
Episode 005: The Problem With Goal Setting
Nigel picked our first fight of 2019 over the one big goal idea, and I answered with a bit of science about dominoes.
Episode 004: Choose Your Emotions Like You Choose Your Clothes
Nigel and I on choosing your emotions like you choose your clothes, and why “more money” isn’t a goal.
I didn’t need a website. I needed a funnel
A blog that reached a million sets of eyes and still didn’t work as a business. The lesson that changed how I thought about websites.
Episode 003: Am I Ok With Myself?
Nigel opens with a spelling test, then I tell the story of getting home from Boise with no bag and a stage waiting.
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DJing since 1987, three decades in business, and the author of Done Beats Perfect. This is where I write it all down.