I look at Peter Diamandis’s predictions for health tech, from regrowing organs to fitness trackers, and why I’d still rather stay well than rely on a cure.
Neil Martin · Beats, Business & Life
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How not running made me a better runner
Seven weeks without a proper run, a half marathon next month and a 5km test with a weighted backpack. What happened when I stopped running.
Progress, NOT Perfection… (Body Transformation Update)
After a month of a new strength programme, six days a week, I’d already dropped an inch off my belly and gained an inch on my chest, plus half an inch on my arms and calves.
Sometimes you have to get uncomfortable
A stranger tells me about Ironman and something shifts. From not managing a mile to ultra-marathons, and why the hard first weeks are the point.
Seth Godin’s Purple Cow made me want to be the giraffe
Why fitting in is the riskiest thing a business can do, what Seth Godin means by remarkable, and how to stop competing on price.
The free December that started everything
Why I gave a 31-day course away for free in December 2015, the 2009 story behind it, and what giving first taught me about business.
Just give up: sometimes it’s the right thing to do
Five thousand squats and push-ups in December, a chest full of cold and a decision on day 29. Why quitting is sometimes the strong choice.
Gratitude is a practice
Having an attitude of gratitude isn’t enough, so here’s the simple nightly practice I use, plus how to write your own easy rules for happiness.
Accept everything, thank everything
My school report said I was more likely to go to prison than university, and why I ended up thanking the teacher who wrote it.
Failure is just research
What if every failure you’ve had was really research, and the thing that stops most people is a fear of something that hasn’t happened yet?
Obliterate “I can’t”
While you tell yourself you can’t do something, you’re right, so here’s how to tear up your can’t list and write a must list instead.
The road to peace begins within
The news says RAF jets have started bombing Syria, and I’m thinking about the war a lot of us fight with ourselves. On anger, blame and making peace at home.
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Hi, I’m Neil
DJing since 1987, three decades in business, and the author of Done Beats Perfect. This is where I write it all down.