Skills? Pah!

Last year, during a week that will one day become semi-affectionately referred to as The Bonkers Week In Which We Did Everything But SleepTM, a lot went on. While dealing with the purchase of a new investment property, we juggled client calls, project deadlines and a visit from my parents alongside the general day-to-day running of our businesses. Most exhaustingly of all, Rob went on a hiring frenzy: 15 Skype interviews over two days with candidates for three new roles within two of our companies. Given the complexities of the…

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You might not be an entrepreneur… and that’s OK

I’m surrounded by entrepreneurs. Social media experts are entrepreneurs. Web designers are entrepreneurs. Management consultants are entrepreneurs. Accountants are entrepreneurs. Except they’re not – not really. “Entrepreneurs use money… to build a business bigger than themselves. Entrepreneurs make money when they sleep. Entrepreneurs focus on growth and on scaling the systems that they build. The more, the better.” (Seth Godin) If you provide a service in which you swap your time for money – like I do – you’re not an entrepreneur. You’re a freelancer. Using a business name in…

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From employees to Anywhereists: our full story (UPDATED)

Where it all began – a typically tiny NYC apartment

  There’s a brand new update (2014 onwards) towards the bottom of this post. WARNING: a lot of the links in this story are broken. Sorry! We’re working on it! When we see or hear successful entrepreneurs talk about how they “just fell into it”, or how they were working in a cubicle but then their “buddy Tim Ferriss called up with an offer to partner up on a business venture”, or how they were $x in debt and no one was buying their product but then “it blew up…

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Do you have decision fatigue?

The ability to make our own decisions is one of life’s greatest freedoms, but boy do we all abuse it at times. We spend so much time figuring out what to wear, what to eat, which movie to watch and where to go on vacation that we end up with what psychologists refer to as “decision fatigue”: the deteriorating quality of decisions made by a person, after a long session of decision making. Decision fatigue has many effects. We may end up avoiding making the decision at all, for example…

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What does your dream year look like?

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do” – said someone who’s clearly better with words than he is at singing (Bob Dylan).  We love this quote. We take the following points from it (even if Mr Dylan didn’t necessarily intend for us to do so):  “Success” isn’t necessarily about lots of money; it’s simply about having the resources and time to do what we want to do every day….

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