Michael Wilding

Category: Motivation

  • Can you juggle?

    Can you juggle?

    I used to be a pretty damn good juggler, up to a maximum of four items.

    Balls, clubs, hoops, you name it and I could juggle with it.

    I was taught to juggle as a child by a family friend. What makes people struggle with juggling is that the balls get away from them.

    If you try to juggle by moving your arms forward, instead of to the side, then the balls get further and further away from your body until you drop them.

    How do you learn to juggle?

    Stand in front of a wall.

    Whaaaaaaaaat!?

    Let me explain… if you stand in front of a wall and the balls start to move away with you, instinctively you’ll move your hands out to stop them.

    When you do that you’re going to punch a wall.

    And I can tell you from experience… that hurts!

    It doesn’t take very many times of hitting the wall until you stop doing it. Guess what? Very quickly you find that you’re juggling.

    And that’s kinda how I look at business.

    Do it the wrong way and you lose control of all the balls you’re juggling.

    But do it right, and very quickly you learn to juggle.

    If everything feels like it’s running away from you, and it will at some point, take a look at what you’re doing.

    Ask yourself if you’re trying to learn to juggle without standing in front of a wall.

    Without a doubt, if you feel like you’re losing control then you will have processes that aren’t working or things happening that don’t have a process.

    You need to stop.

    Look at it objectively.

    Work out how you can make it manageable and structure it in a way that someone else could do the work if necessary.

    Then implement your new plan.

    And with that, I’m off to juggle some balls (or possible fire clubs).

    See you in the circus 🙂

    Michael

  • Oh Raggles…

    Oh Raggles…

    As I write this email Max is watching something on T.V. that seems to have a character saying “Oh Raggles” every few sentences.

    It’s surprisingly hard to focus on writing when there’s a blue bunny jumping around the screen talking about Raggles and wishes.

    But hey ho.

    Last Thursday I went to the London Lunch for the first time in an age, and what a great time it was.

    Well.. I say I went to the lunch.

    I actually arrived after lunch!

    Everyone was still eating and I lurked outside in the bar like some oddball loner.

    I was intermittently interrupted by the bar staff who thought I was being an asshole by sitting on tables with a Reserved sign on them.

    About thirty minutes after I arrived, everyone started coming out of lunch and we got chatting.

    But, as always, I walked away with a number of ideas of what to implement.

    There’s no doubt about it, networking in person is one of the best ways to move your business forwards.

    Just talking to people about what you’re doing and what they’re doing will give you a ton of ideas.

    And, of course, there’s always the possibility that you may walk away with a JV or partnership.

    With a ton of networking events, it’s never hard to find one that’s specific to your market.

    However, and this is just me talking personally, there’s no point in going to the heavy pitch events.

    Part of the reason for that is I absolutely hate them.

    But secondly… usually everyone at them is in the mindset that they have to sell.

    Which means you can’t sit down and just chat with people.

    It’s the chatting over a drink, or meal, that’s really where partnerships happen.

    There’s no magic to it.

    Just a group of people, at different stages, sharing their ideas and aiming for a similar goal.

    If something happens to click with someone.

    If you can work with someone and both benefit.

    Then that’s pretty friggin awesome, and you’ll probably do business.

    If not, then you won’t, but you’ll still walk away with a ton of ideas.

    My walk-away idea…

    Create an autoresponder service, double-optin only, and let you folk use it for free.

    Waddya think, is that something you’d use?

    Ciao,

    Michael

  • UK Workers are Lazy

    UK Workers are Lazy

    There’s been a new documentary released in the UK which shows young British workers being, well… lazy.

    In a T.V. experiment, a group of 18-23 year olds agreed to work as cabbage pickers, doing a job that’s usually done by EU migrant workers.

    What happened?

    In the first hour they were complaining of frozen fingers, runny noses, and one graduate needed a break to warm her icy hands.

    The EU workers worked ten times as fast, and the team featured in the documentary admitted that they thought the farm would be losing money by employing them.

    However, the team did finish their work and managed to meet the quota they’d been set for the day.

    Why I am writing about this?

    Because it relates to 99% of everyone who’s trying to make money online.

    There’s a common miss-conception that they can press a button, spend 15 minutes and make thousands every day.

    Wouldn’t that be nice!

    The truth is… anybody who’s making money online, who has a nice lifestyle, who seems to be successful by doing very little… has worked bloody hard to get there.

    They’ve poured the hours, days, weeks, months and years of work into their business until it reaches the point where they can take a bit of back seat.

    Don’t expect anybody to hand you anything, if they do it’s a bonus. But always know that you can do whatever you like. I strongly believe that you’re only limited by your own mind.

    Over and out on a snowy London day,

    Michael

  • Fountain Of Youth

    Fountain Of Youth

    Today I’m giving you some Zen magic.

    Actually, the magic comes courtesy of Richard, who got in touch with me after I sent an email talking about the pain I’m in.

    And a big thank you to him for letting me know about the fountain of youth.

    There are five exercises you should be doing every day to keep yourself healthy, limber and fit.

    These five ‘rites’ are thought to be around 2500 years old, and if that’s true…

    …they’re either going to work well or be the best con in history!

    I’d be on the side that they’re going to work well 😉

    Anyhoo…

    Here’s a video showing you how to do them if you want to join in with Richard and myself 🙂

    https://youtu.be/TJElLrpBetc

    Thanks for the great advice Richard!

    Ciao,

    Michael

  • A New Dawn

    A New Dawn

    It’s the dawn of a new era!

    This morning I got into my car and drove to work.

    WTF!

    It’s been longer than ten years since I last did that.

    The difference?

    Today I’m driving to my own office.

    I don’t have to work from there, I could work from home. But with Max, Holly, our mums, building work etc… I’m planning to be able to get back to my previous working hours.

    i.e. work until lunch, go to the gym, head home to see Max, Holly and our mums 🙂

    As you know, I’ve always preached the importance of focus in the place you work if you want to get more done in half a day than the average person gets done in an entire day.

    (or in the case of some people an entire week!)

    We’ve not got the office perfect yet, but then again it’s only day one.

    However, BeeBee has given it the seal of approval!

    Althought she may look clean above, she’s already coated the place in mud.

    The office is located in the yard of our construction company, and there’s currently a load of mud outside until the twenty tonnes of hardcore arrives tomorrow to level it off.

    All I need now is Sonos so I can play Spotify instead of the radio and I’ll be all set.

    I’ll keep you posted on how it’s working out 😉

    Ciao,

    Michael

    P.S. If you’re based in the UK and need a construction company, you know where I am!