Secret sauce

Book:

Daily RitualsMason Currey

Woody Allen

Beethoven

Nicola Tesla

Picasso

Victor Hugo

The Wheel of Life

Make Space in Your

Life for

Block time in your

calendar for you

I block Mondays and Fridays and usually don’t have meetings –

occasional phone calls. My morning are me time as well – I typically

don’t set any meetings till after lunch.

Create your sacred

non-negotiables that

you do every day!Never had that before – my day started by jumping into my inbox and

clearing new emails. I’ve done that for almost 10 years of working

life!

Read

35 books read in 2014

My favourite books in

2014:1. The Startup of You – Ben Hoffman, founder Linkedin

2. Daring greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable

transforms the way we live, love, parent and lead – Brene

Brown

3. The Maker Movement Manifesto - Mark Hatch, Techshop

4. ReWork: Change the way you work forever – Jason Fried,

David Heinemeier

5. Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh, Zappos

6. The Spiritual Machine – Ray Kurzweil

7. The Anatomy of Peace: How to Resolve the Heart of

Conflict – Arbinger Institute

8. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a world that cannot stop

talking – Susan Cain

9. Playful Parenting - Lawrence Cohen

Exercise every day

Exercise:

hold your breath for 30

seconds

If you are not healthy –

nothing else really

matters!

If you are going

through tough, stressful

periods –

DOUBLE DOWN on

SELF-CARE

My Exercise secretsI bought a fitness tracker that told me that I don’t move much or sleep

enough! It’s easy not to walk much in Guernsey if you have small

kids and take your car to work.

My mantra is to exercise at least 15 min every day.

Walk up and down stairs.

Sometimes bike into town

Park as far away as possible.

Sometimes just get out of the house and walk around the garden!.

Started running because that’s the easiest and most consistent sport

anyone can keep to.

High Intensity Interval Training – which is more effective and shorter!

EAT HEALTHY

My Eating secrets:Center my food on fresh and cooked vegetables and proteins

Cut gluten based goods to minimum (pastas, pastries, bread)

Cut down on sugar

Drink a lot of water

Don’t drink much alcohol

Eat CHOCOLATE!

Still learning what works for me and what does not!

Sleep 8 hours a day

I always thought I was a night-owl until I had small children. I

discovered that the main reason I found it hard to wake up in the

morning is because I always went to sleep after mid-night. I never

slept 8 hours a day. Research showing sleep for kids is key and

reducing sleep even by 15 minutes is affecting their test results.

Write

Startupme.co

Know your DNA

Personality tests:

VIA personality test

Myers-Briggs test

Enneagrams

Write ideas every day –

10 ideas per day

Ideas for the next 10

IOD lunch talks:

1. New technologies – 3D printing, Artificial Intelligence,

2. Failure - How to fail and the success of failure

3. Mums and Mumpreneurs – the biggest under-utilised resource in the world

4. Vulnerability and openness – business stories that you’ve never heard

about

5. The Future of Education

6. Your job will not exist + predictions for next 10 years.

7. Crowdlaw - Crowdsourced legislation – how to become the most nimble

jurisdiction in the world

8. Intrapreneurship or how to build startups in companies

9. Jumpstarting innovation in Guernsey through new immigration and

housing policy

10.Maker Movement – creating 10000 entrepreneurs in Guernsey in 5 years.

Share –

ideas, thoughts,

embrace open source

not IP protection.

We teach children to share– how about ourselves?

Experiment

Help a startup

Fund a startup

Start a startup

Startup

24The first startup bootcamp

experience in Guernsey.

March 20th/21st 2015

Start a quest

Be

Mindful/Spiritual/Whate

ver you call it -enjoy the

moment, every day

I will live till 100.

Which means my mid-

life crisis is not

happening for another

20 y.

Sign-up for an online

courseCoursera.com

Udemy.com

Khan Academy

Watch a TED talkTed.com

Embrace technology –

it is here to stay

Your job

will not

exist in

10 years

time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

Future predictions in

1999

Ray Kurzweilhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil#The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines_.281999.29

• Thin, lightweight, handheld displays with very high resolutions are the preferred means for

viewing documents..

• Computers have made paper books and documents almost completely obsolete.

• Most learning is accomplished through intelligent, adaptive online courseware presented by

computer-simulated teachers. In the learning process, human adults fill the counselor and

mentor roles instead of being academic instructors.

• Most human workers spend the majority of their time acquiring new skills and knowledge.

• Blind people wear special glasses that interpret the real world for them through speech.

Sighted people also use these glasses to amplify their own abilities.

• Language translating machines are of much higher quality, and are routinely used in

conversations.

• Access to the Internet is completely wireless and provided by wearable or implanted

computers.

• People are able to wirelessly access the Internet at all times from almost anywhere

• Devices that deliver sensations to the skin surface of their users (i.e.--tight body suits and

gloves) are also sometimes used in virtual reality to complete the experience. - "Virtual sex”

• The vast majority of business interactions occur between humans and simulated retailers, or

between a human's virtual personal assistant and a simulated retailer.

• Household robots are ubiquitous and reliable.

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• A $4000 computer is a smart as the human brain

• Computers are embedded everywhere in the environment (inside of furniture, jewelry, walls,

clothing, etc.).

• People experience 3-D virtual reality through glasses and contact lenses that beam images

directly to their retinas

• Most business transactions or information inquiries involve dealing with a simulated person.

• Cables connecting computers and peripherals have almost completely disappeared.

• Destructive scans of the brain and noninvasive brain scans have allowed scientists to

understand the brain much better..

• Computers do most of the vehicle driving—-humans are in fact prohibited from driving on

highways unassisted.

• Most roads now have automated driving systems—networks of monitoring and communication

devices that allow computer-controlled automobiles to safely navigate.

• Prototype personal flying vehicles using microflaps exist. They are also primarily computer-

controlled.

• Human-robot relationships begin as simulated personalities become more convincing.

• Virtual artists—creative computers capable of making their own art and music—emerge in all

fields of the arts.

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Invest in yourself –

You are the most

important investment

you can make, every

day!

Learn, Learn, Learn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOVmVMJEhg8

“There is no secret sauce… to make something

special you have to believe it’s special” – Ping,

Kung-Fu Panda

The secret ingredient

of growth,

enterprise…everythin

g is….