A Blog by Tim Wade

No follow through - by Tim Wade In March 2018 I received confirmation that I would be delivering nine unique keynotes on a cruise ship in October that year. One of the topics was titled Get Healthier Finally and I figured I had 6 months to shape up before having to deliver that one. Excellent. Six months for me to get healthier finally. That's doable. Except I didn't follow through. Tell the truth Are there some decisions you've made that were awesome decisions, but then you never took any action? I'll tell you the truth: for me there have been a lot. It's almost as if I know what to do, I decide to do it, I might even want to do it, but I don't do it. And it drives me crazy. And it probably drives others crazy too. I'm not exclusively like that. Sometimes I make decisions bordering on impulsive, act immediately, boom: result. My recent trek to Everest is an example of that. (There are pros and cons with that approach as well. Sometimes that sort ...

I'm a big believer in rewarding your own effort. And today, after I dropped Zoe off at school, I'm here in a coffee shop by the beach. But my reward is - and I'm on a health and fitness kick - a giant breakfast. Full video of this post is at the bottom of the page! The reason why I'm finally on a health kick now is that I put a giant end goal in the middle of October: I'm doing a health talk about how to get fit and healthy on a cruise ship. Not how to get fit and healthy on a cruise ship, but the talk is on a cruise ship, and it's about how to get fit and healthy. So I figure it's probably a good idea that I'm reasonably fit and healthy by the time I get to the cruise ship or else it's going to look incongruous and idiotic. And I'm going to be pretty embarrassed. YOUR REWARDS So: Mindset of Victory. Victory has rewards. Breakfast: protein reward. There's a gym in my condo so I could just go down to the gym and ...

Here's how I gamified my productivity with music and a talking timer... The goal: increase productivity. The method: fun. The video shows the process in action. The app is called: Talking Timer The music is: Resin (Overspring edit) by Aes Dana from the album Perimeters The result was: HUGE PRODUCTIVITY Try it out for yourself.

Starting your New Year's Resolutions today = 526% more success. If you start your New Year's Resolutions today, you will be 526% more likely to succeed at them. When you start your New Year's Resolutions today, rather than wait until New Year's Day, you're 526% more likely to succeed at achieving those resolutions. Because you're 5 times more likely to be committed to delivering the OUTCOME rather than just the annual intention if you start in December. Okay, here's the breakdown: 100% -- Because 1st Jan is when you're supposed to declare rather than actually do anything. That's why most resolutions are abandoned or forgotten by 17 Jan. Because the goal is to declare rather than do. And as soon as we go back to work we forget about the new and get back into the old. 200% -- Because the new you starts today, not some other day, and you want to start the new year already running, not fluffing around looking for your brand new gym shoes...

HANG IN THERE, ONE DAY YOUR MESS WILL BECOME YOUR MESSAGE. You're going through this so you can help someone else... I believe whatever you're in right now is not something that is happening to you, it’s happening for you, and more specifically, it's happening for you to draw from when helping someone else. In time to come. So as you live through it, also observe it, remember it, learn from it, and as you seek and find resources within you and around you to come out from it, remember to keep your eyes and ears open for those you are to share your journey with, to help them through theirs. 🙂 I heard "One day your mess will become your message" at church last Sunday morning from a video of a local tennis star quoting from a book that helped save her life during a low, a suicidal low. It moved me enough to write about it here. Hopefully, it‘ll give an amazing perspective to someone who could use a higher point of view right now. - Tim Wade Tim...

I was listening to some insights from Derek Sivers (sivers.org), the guy who created CD Baby, sold it for $22 million and rolled all of that into a fund that would support education for musicians after he died. Cool. He asked, why do you do what you do, and then suggested to pick from one of these 5 reasons: 1. Money 2. Prestige 3. Fame 4. Legacy 5. Freedom And he says choosing any is okay, just be true to yourself and then optimise your career for that: focus on that, make that your measure. But it may mean NOT focussing on getting the others too, but some of them might come as a by-product. So, for example, if you choose to go for Money, then you might let someone else take the spotlight (Fame) while you focus on the money. Like being the movie producer instead of the star actor. If you want prestige, then focus on the circles that you wish to be acknowledged for and give up some of the other stuff. If you want the limelight, be everywhere. If you want legacy, put...

This is your best, most positive and accurate New Year forecast... Because I'm fascinated about people's desire to read a forecast of their fortunes for the new year, I thought I'd write one, an awesome one. A strologers publish calendar year or lunar new year horoscopes all over the world, but what if it contains bad news? (The one I wrote for you doesn't: it's awesome.) D uring Chinese New Year there is enormous interest in how the coming year will pan out. In Singapore for example, huge boards go up in public areas during Chinese New Year and crowds gather to read forecasts of their health, happiness, relationships and wealth prospects for the year ahead. Now while I don't believe in any of that stuff, I do know that our expectations of the future will influence our mindset and the degrees to which we take action. So our expectations of the future can often create that future. Then surely it's a good idea to lock on to a version of the new year that ...

Tweet Image Have you - in the past of course - been too lazy to be more successful? Or richer or healthier or to get the results you want or whatever? You already know what you need to do. Do the work dude. You know it. Just do it. Get annoyed enough with yourself for not doing it so that you do it. So what do you need to do? The stuff you've been putting off usually. The stuff you avoid. The stuff you make excuses about not being able to do. Fat and don't like running? Start running. But my knee... Walk then... My other knee... Swim. Stop making stupid excuses that blame something else other than your resistance to doing what needs to be done. Albert Gray, an insurance guy in the 1940s said in a famous speech titled The Common Denominator of Success , "The common denominator of success is that successful people form the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do." We all have areas of our life that we could be more successful in. So w...

Tweet Image Not happy about something? Decide to change it or influence it to change. Posting it on social media won't change anything except other peoples' good opinions of you. Instead take some positive action right now. Make an appointment, send an email, book a thing, make a call, write a letter, join a movement, walk over to a desk, whatever. Just do it. Warning: choose your words and your approach wisely. If you're not happy with a person, for example, don't go all volcanic eruption all over them with pent up molten lava. Think about how to tell them in a way that will deliver a solution for them and for you. Like, "Hey, I've noticed you become like a condescending Facebook troll for the majority of my posts or comments. It seems weird that you seem to publicly put-down-to-one-up me yet be nice to every one else. What's really going on here?" Initiate a solution. Work to make it happen. Don't be a vocal complacenary. Be a vocation...

Basics: 3 Action Cycles to Start Creating Wealth. It's not rocket science, but it's a straightforward process. These actionable strategies only require you and some time, and you can start from any wealth level. Even the "miserable wealth" level. :) If you're miserable about not being wealthy, there are usually 3 actions you haven't taken. Get these three things done and moving and you'll likely stop being miserable and start getting wealthier. Action Step 1: Define your wealth goal immediately Define what being wealthy is for you. "Having more than now" is not a suitable definition because finding 20 cents on the pavement will meet that criteria, yet it doesn't transform your life. In Richard Templar's book The Rules of Wealth , he shared how a friend defined being wealthy as when he could live off the interest earned from the interest earned on his earned stash. So his stash earns interest, and the interest earned on the int...

It's a new year! And while that usually means dusting off old resolutions and spinning them around for 3 weeks, what if we took a different perspective on the commitment we'd like to make at this time of year? What if this period of reflection and optimism about the fresh start of a new year is actually the fresh start of a new life? If today is the day of your new life, and the old you is being replaced and transformed into the new you, and you're in the Transformation Shop telling the Transformation Specialist all the things that you'd like included, tweaked and removed in your upgraded version of yourself and your life... what would you ask for? There was a scene in the movie The Matrix, when Cypher is agreeing to the betrayal of the team to Agent Smith over a juicy steak dinner. It's then that he dictates how he would like to experience his new life, "And I want to be rich. Someone important. Like an actor. You can do that, right?" You can do th...

Life is made up of choices. We choose to do things every day. And what we choose to do, when we choose to do it, and how we choose to do it tends to craft the quality of our life. That quality might be swiss-watch-like quality, or it might be two-dollar store quality. It all depends on our choices and how we respond to the consequences of those choices. Consider the Duck and the Spectacle. A duck is a funny, cute, awkward and awesome creature that seems to add value in everything it does and is. A duck is also an action you take to get out of the way of something hurtling towards you. So maybe it's time to get out of our own way. A duck is also one of very few creatures that can swim, walk and fly. It can live happily on the water, on the land and in the air. Maybe it's time to recognise that our funny awkwardness has an awesome uniqueness that makes us, in this life, truly special. A spectacle is both something amazing to see and something to see amazingly through. If ...