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Last night I drove through 3 hours of snow to get back from Suffolk where I had taken the 3 day Lightning Process training. I had plenty of time to reflect on the training and even use it in my head as the snow got thicker, visibility dropped and the traffic on the roads slowed [...]

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A Block Busting day is something I created to solve two of the biggest problems of working on your own - having no boss to hold you accountable and feeling isolated (particularly if you work at home).
The result of these two issues is that some big ugly tasks stay on your To Do list forever. [...]

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“Know thine enemy as completely as you know yourself and you will always be victorious.” Sun Tzu
The number one enemy of your creativity and happiness is your Top Dog. Every creativity exercise ever invented was designed to get past it.
Life Coach Pete Cohen says:
“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your [...]

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If you’re creatively blocked, if you can’t work out what you’d really like to do with your life, if others’ criticism cuts you to the bone, if you’re haunted by negative visions of the future, or if your mood takes a dive at the smallest trigger, there’s one culprit behind it all.
It’s the number one [...]

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This is the personal blog of John Williams, author of "Screw work, let's play: How to do what you love & get paid for it" to be published by Pearson in June 2010.

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