Go with a smile
We’re all digital now, as John Prescott might say. But could this become a negative?
A tiny village in Spain is threatened by the rise of social media. They chose to combat it in an interesting way...
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. So says James Clear.
Welcome to The Naked Adviser. Do you like the new look?
I’ve done it. I’ve killed the Friday email. Why? It was so much fun. Well, party time is over folks. Just kidding.
Nostalgia (noun)nos·tal·gia | \ nä-ˈstal-jə , nə- also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- \ 1: the state of being homesick 2: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
Every Friday I send an email. I started this last March at the start of the pandemic. (Back in the days when we were bathing our groceries.) And I’ve never missed one. Until last Friday. So what happened? I’ll tell you in a minute.
Social scientist Randy Garner wondered whether sticky notes might have the power to enhance compliance with a written request made to another person. To test this, he sent out surveys to people with a request to complete them.
Running a small business is like a rollercoaster, but you've just got to ride it. And successful marketing for small businesses like adviser firms is hard! I can take this problem away and do it all for you, in one simple package.
I was describing to a friend recently that being out with my dog sometimes feels like being out with David Beckham because of all the attention he gets. My friend laughed at the reference to Golden Balls.
The title of Bananarama’s autobiography, Really Saying Something, held such promise. But despite its title, the bananas’ story doesn’t say much at all.
I’m on holiday this week so it’s over to you!
How do you feel about the new Casual Atmosphere? Are you glad to be grey, in prison style joggers, or do you long for days of the starched suit?
There’s no dignified way to eat a packet of strawberry laces in public at the age of 45. But when strawberry laces become the only thing you feel like eating as you ride the AstraZeneca side effects wave, what is there to do?
What’s the perfect VouchedFor score out of 5? 4.8 or 4.9 of course. Why?5 is too perfect looking, too teacher’s pet, too robotic.
May be if it hadn’t been for Tony Hart’s Gallery there wouldn’t have been such a huge backlash over David Hockney’s new artwork for Piccadilly Circus station.
