Bootstrap Your Life

Today I’m passing on some wise advice from Seth Godin: What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, you’re wasting away. No matter what your job is, no matter where you work, there’s a way to create a project (on your own, on weekends if necessary), where the excitement is palpable, where something that might make a difference is right around the corner. Hurry, go do that. Are you rusting away at work doing a job you hate? Do you work from home, but always seem to be working on the stuff you don’t like? Well

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Some people panic at the idea of hosting a party or having guests over to stay. Worse still, some people don’t put in any effort at all and think they’re doing a great job. Even more infuriatingly, some of those people (supposedly not putting in any effort at all) are actually the best hosts ever. Well, I want to investigate what it takes to be one of them. First basic step to dinner party planning: Have a clean house. Not fastidiously clean to the point of obsessive compulsive disorder. Just...

Richard St. John gave a TED speech which summarised how to be successful perfectly in under four minutes. Watch this! He’s also made nifty wallpaper for all sorts of devices of his “8 to be great” cycle. Filed under: Bootstrap, Bootstrap: Step 1, Bootstrap: Step 2, Bootstrap: Step 3, Bootstrap: Step 4, business, Career, organisation, Quality of Life, Success, Work

I’ve spoken to a few people recently who are worried about using services like LinkedIn because they are embarrassed about their work history. They don’t want to admit to prospective employers that they took a job way below their qualifications just because the rent needed paying. They also don’t want to admit that they kept those jobs because it was some sort of security, even though it was doing nothing for their career path. Other similar people might be looking to make a career change,...

Okay, hands up who has a pile of magazines they will never read? And who has a stack of clothes they never wear? Who has friends or family who make them feel awful? And who dreads going to their job? I bet most people would have felt the need to raise your hand to at least one of those points (although, you probably didn’t actually do it because the people around you at work would think you were nuts). We all hold on to a lot of things in our lives that we just don’t need. Things that are...