Productive Music Playlist (1.5 hrs) - October 2017 - Vol.2 - #EntVibes

Oh, just found out that Evan Carmichael puts together a playlist of productive music on a regular basis.  How great is that?!  Here's the second volume for October - enjoy :)

How to use vector graphics on the web

This video becomes a bit technical half-way through, but it's a great introduction to vector images, what they are, and why they are often used instead of the jpeg or png image files that we might be more familiar with.

Jpeg and png type files are known as rastor files: these are composed of lots of tiny dots (pixels) that make up the whole image, so they lose picture quality when they are scaled up too much.

Vector files are usually type .svg files, which stands for scalable vector graphics: these are composed of code, which the computer interprets as the image.  This means they are totally scalable, plus load times are much quicker than the pixel images.

To create vector images yourself you will need an application like Illustrator...  But if you already have the svg files then you can just upload them.  For example, if you have outsourced the creation of the images, or bought stock images already in the svg file format, then you can just use these on your websites.

26 PSYCHOLOGY FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT PEOPLE

A few fun facts...  The ones that can help us in our businesses are:

#13 - Doing things that scare you, will make you happier.  Well, that's every day for an entrepreneur!  :)

#23 - Being alone for a long time is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.  Something for us to think about if we're working from home a lot...  Make sure we get out there and spend time with real people!

#26 - Keep an eye on people's feet if we're negotiating!  :)  If they are turning away from us, it suggests they disagree...

How To Learn Anything Faster - 5 Tips to Increase your Learning Speed (F...

Really useful video, giving tips on how to reshuffle our working time so that it's truly effective.   It details these 5 tips:

1 - Deconstruct the skill, and use the Pareto Principle - the 80/20 principle.  Focus on just the 1 or 2 tasks that will give you the majority of the results.

2 - Have a laser-like focus and use the Pomodoro Technique.

This is where you shut down all external distractions and fully focus on the task for around 20 - 25 minutes, then take a 5 min break.  After 4 of these sessions, so after around 2 hours of this, take a longer break.  Apparently this increases productivity significantly, so is a great tip!

3 - Learn by Doing -and gain experience by making mistakes

4 - Be Persistent - fight through the 'dip', which is the time after your initial excitement, when things aren't happening as quickly as you wanted them to and a lot of people quit

5 - Get Enough Sleep - sleep consolidates memories, and allows our brains to continue developing given all the new information we're consuming.  The video explains this Brain Plasticity Theory.

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss

I love this - Tim Ferriss talks us through the Philosophy of Stoicism, and the key points I took from this are:

- perform Fear Analysis, in the same way you would Goal Analysis
- anything that is making us worry about taking a forward action, should be analysed to find out why.  - sure, your fear might be well founded and completely valid, but just work through it and then you'll know for certain.
- otherwise you'll be able to find work-arounds in case the 'what if' scenario actually happens
- this is similar to the risk analysis that I used to perform in my previous life as a project manager - understanding what can go wrong, and mitigating that is the best way to get comfortable with your decisions

it's good to be BACK !!!

AMAZON BUYS WHOLE FOODS - DAILYVEE SEASON 3: PART 5 OF 6

Some of my take-aways from this vid:

- 'The new world is going to eat the old world'.

- If you're winning at the moment - don't let someone else buy you, 'buy yourself'.

- Innovation always wins

- White space in Snapchat...  just a snippet he dropped, but could be worth exploring!