Welcome to our weekly newsletter! 26 January 2025 Hey friend, I spent the last week thinking about the cost/benefit of my work. Am I doing too much? Is it costing me too much in other areas of my life? Should I be proud of myself for my efforts or should I be going harder? Do you ever wonder the same thing? Some Thoughts How can work make you happy? Well, to make you happy it should do two things. 1. Give you success that you have earned. 2. Include some service to others. When you feel like...
10 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome to our weekly newsletter! 19 January 2025 Hey friend, I have a little analogy for you this week. Imagine flying a plane. Taking off is the hardest part right? Then its just cruise. The same thing applies to learning. The beginning is the hard part. But don't give up. It gets easier. Some Thoughts Podcaster Dr Chatterjee used a really interesting phrase which I thought I’d share. He talked about putting the “spotlight of gratitude” on your life. Taking the time to focus on little...
17 days ago • 1 min read
Welcome to our weekly newsletter! 12 January 2025 Hey friend, Exciting news this week. We just finished filming for our first course "Remote Project Management Mastery". It took a while but I wanted to get this right. And to give you all the information you need and nothing that you don't. The course will be out in February and I'll let you know more soon. Very exciting! Some Thoughts I recently watched a pretty inspiring YouTube video by an Australian creator. He spoke about reframing your...
24 days ago • 1 min read
Welcome to our weekly newsletter! 5 January 2025 Hey friend, Welcome to 2025 and our first newsletter of the year. I hope that you plan big and achieve big this year. And I hope that we can keep providing you value in your project management (and life) journey. Some Thoughts “The road to success is paved with mistakes well handled.” ~ Danny Meyer. I think about this quote when I am disappointed. I don’t think it needs much explanation. When something bad happens to you, feel free to feel it....
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Welcome to our weekly newsletter! 29 December 2024 Hey friend, Welcome to the last newsletter of 2024. But don't stress, we aren't going anywhere. It's been a successful year and I'm happy with what we have managed to create. And the most important thing we created: valuable, mindset shifting, life-changing info for project professionals like you. Some Thoughts Matthew Dicks said; “I don’t memorise a story, I remember it”. Now Matthew is the winner of six storytelling championships so his...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Welcome to our weekly newsletter! 22 December 2024 Hey friend, We are well into the end of the year and many of us are on holiday. And wow do I need it! Those last few days of work seemed to drag on forever. Now if I could just get my body clock to reset and stop waking me at 5am that would be really nice. Some Thoughts Your brain is better at reacting to something than coming up with new ideas. If I asked you to think of 5 ways to protect a forest from an invasive plant species you might...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome to our weekly newsletter! 15 December 2024 Hey friend, I'm going all-in on Substack at the moment. I've found it to be a great place to get insightful articles and to share thoughts on project management and life that don't feel appropriate to share in other places. Join me there if that sounds good to you. Some Thoughts Creatives are fond of the technique of introducing constraints in order to try and boost their creativity. Photographers might choose to only shoot B&W photos for a...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to our weekly newsletter! 08 December 2024 Hey friend, Have you tried Substack? I've been spending some time on there lately. The community seems to be supportive. I'm excited to engage with some PM's there. Join in if you like reading longer form articles and notes. Some Thoughts A few days ago I was working on our new course teaching you how to become a remote project manager. I came across a video on app design and how designers use random rewards to spike dopamine. You know how...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to our weekly newsletter! 1 December 2024 Hey friend, First newsletter of December and another year is almost done. Sheesh there have been massive changes this year. I need to write my annual review and goals for 2025. That should come out in a newsletter soon so stay tuned for that. Some Thoughts I did an interesting thought exercise this week. I’ll call it the “what would I do” exercise. It originally comes from Tony Robins. I asked myself; “What would I do if I was the world’s best...
2 months ago • 1 min read