Michael Wilding

Category: Productivity

  • It’s a scary-ass situation

    It’s a scary-ass situation

    Take action.

    You must implement.

    These are two things you hear me, and others, saying again and again and again.

    Why?

    Because if you don’t, then you’re never gonna succeed. If you don’t start, then you can’t get anywhere, and starting is amongst the hardest things to do.

    The reason we don’t start is because it’s a scary-ass situation.

    If you start, then you could fail, and that’s what makes it scary. If you never start, you can never fail, but you can also never succeed.

    So here’s how to make sure you do something about it…

    Tell your audience the date you’re going to be doing something.

    It could be releasing your product, providing an update, or anything else that you need to do. But tell them the date.

    Once you’ve publicly said the date, you’ll get it done, you’ll take action. Because if you don’t, you’re gonna look like a dick.

    Michael

    P.S. The October edition of Business Ignition goes to the printers in a few days, which means it’s getting close to your last ever chance to get it.

    https://michaelwilding.com/business-ignition/

  • Rainbow Fair Grounds

    Rainbow Fair Grounds

    So… Oktoberfest… where to begin…

    It’s awesome.

    Essentially, it’s a massive fairground with obscene amounts of beer.

    And, it’s amazing how much beer you can drink, when it’s served to you in bigger glasses.

    Anyhoo… my favourite ride was the funhouse, which I managed to go on three times.

    It’s a big moving house, filled with floors that move, spinning circles to get through, and all manner of bits and bobs to navigate.

    But, that wasn’t enough, so they also gave you glasses. Glasses that made all lights into rainbows.

    It was like trying to get through it on LSD.

    (not that I’ve ever done LSD you understand).

    For 48 hours, I was like a child, going round a funfair with my best friends.

    Bottom line… I would recommend it to everybody. Even if you don’t like beer, it’s worth going at least once.

    Us, we’re planning on making it a yearly event from now on!

    Having fun is something that, as we get older, we forget to do . We go for dinner, or an evening party. Our fun becomes measured out in doses of a few hours, no more.

    And that’s not how it should be.

    You should be spending most of your life having fun.

    And, since we spend most of our lives working, that means you should be having fun while you work.

    To do that, you have to do something you love.

    So the first step, is to think of something you love.

    The second step, is to join the other Business Ignition members, to discover how you can turn that into money.

    https://michaelwilding.com/business-ignition/

    Michael

    P.S. The next  monthly edition is going to print in just seven days.

  • The Dogs Of War

    Have you seen that movie War Dogs?

    It’s the one, where some kids manage to secure a huge U.S. government contract to supply weapons and ammunitions.

    Jonah Hill and Miles Teller star in the film, and Jonah Hill plays the asshole while Miles Teller plays the nice guy who gets dragged into it.

    As the film progresses, Miles Teller’s character begins to look more tired and drawn out. Which is kinda how I feel today.

    It’s just been one of those weeks.

    I started with the paint-stripping, combined with Eddie (the man who helps me behind the scenes) going on holiday, and me going off to Oktoberfest tonight, I feel like I’ve barely slept this week.

    And when you feel like that, your productivity drops through the floor!

    But that’s how I used to feel all the time. Now it’s only very occasionally, when there’s a huge amount going on.

    It’s very easy to feel that being this busy and tired, means you’re running a proper business.

    Let me tell you now, it isn’t.

    If you feel like that all the time, then you’re going to be making bad decisions, you’re going to be making costly mistakes, and the reality is… you’ll be getting far less done and it’ll be taking you a long time to do it.

    Don’t get over-tired. 

    When you feel like you’re trying to do too much, take a step back and breathe, re-organise yourself and then start again tomorrow.

    There’s always tomorrow, and in reality, there’s almost nothing that can’t wait until then!

    Michael

    P.S. If you haven’t joined our private Facebook group yet, then here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1676733229252397/

    P.P.S. Let’s connect on Twitter, here’s my page https://twitter.com/mikeywilding

    P.P.P.S. I’ve had a cartoon of myself drawn, keep an eye out for him appearing soon 😉

  • The Beer Guzzling Monster

    The Beer Guzzling Monster

    Ladies and gentlemen, this weekend I’m going to become a beer guzzling monster.

    Why I hear you ask?

    Well, that’s because on Friday morning, I’m going to be flying off to Munich in order to attend the world famous Oktoberfest.

    Whooooohooooo.

    Which means that you won’t get an email from me this weekend. If you did, it probably wouldn’t make much sense.

    But next week I’ll tell you all about it.

    The truth is, I’m not much of a beer drinker normally. I prefer wine or gin and tonic. However, when in Oktoberfest, one must consume beer (at least that’s what I’ve been told).

    Since beer usually sends me to sleep, there is every chance I may have two drinks, and then spend the rest of the weekend asleep in my hotel room.

    Anyhoo…

    Before I boards’ a plane to attend the worlds biggest beer drinking festival, I wanted to let you know about this months edition of Business Ignition, which I’m spending the next two days editing.

    I’ll give you some sneak peeks into what’s inside it tomorrow, but if you want to be able to use those nuggets of information in your business, to make yourself a fortune, then you’re gonna need to step-up tootsweet (yes, I know that’s not the official spelling) to get it before it goes to print.

    https://michaelwilding.com/go/1yfa69

    Michael

    P.S. There’s only going to be one email a day for the rest of this week. Partly because I’m still intoxicated from the paint stripping fumes, and am finding it much harder to focus. That’s a job I won’t be doing again! And, because I need to focus on making sure Business Ignition members get killer information in next months magazine.

    P.P.S. I’ve been a bit quiet on my Marketing Nugget videos, but they’re going to be starting back in earnest, next week.

    P.P.P.S. If you’re a Business Ignition member, keep an eye out on your inbox over the next few days, because I’m going to be sharing with you all the exciting updates that are happening to Business Ignition!

    P.P.P.P.S. Just in case you’d forgotten where to get Business Ignition while reading my P.S.’s…

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  • My Stripper Nightmare

    My Stripper Nightmare

    So yesterday I was stripping.

    Whoah!

    Stop undressing me with your mind.

    Not that kinda stripping. The kinda stripping that you do when you’ve got a baby due in a few weeks, and still haven’t got the room sorted, because you’ve been having all kindsa fun running your internet businesses.

    My mum came up to help, and she’s a trooper. When I was flagging, she was still going strong. And considering we started at 7:00am and finished at 8:20pm, that’s pretty damn impressive.

    We only stopped for a lunch break, and I stopped mid-morning to do my days work (a couple of hours).

    Otherwise we went straight through.

    And boy, was it damn hard work. It’s because we’ve got wooden panelling that’s been painted over for the last thirty years, and we’re trying to take it back to the wood, so we can see all the intricate beading around it.

    Here’s what it currently looks like…

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    That’s about a third of the room, and my mum’s on the ladder, so we reckon we’ve got another two or three days of hard grind to get it finished.

    But it’s gonna be awesome.

    Because as we strip the room back, we find stuff that was put there about 250 years ago (around when the house was built).

    Once we we’ve got everything stripped back, then we can start building again.

    Which is what you need to be doing to ya bizniss.

    There’s no point in just carrying on doing what your doing if it doesn’t work. You need to strip back, go to the bare basics, and then start again from there, building slowly so you know you’re doing what works.

    That’s what I teach in Business Ignition, and those folk are absolutely rockin’ it.

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    Michael