8 hours, 48 minutes and 38 seconds
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Release Date: 01/26/2025
My last 90-day plan
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
For the past ten years (and three months), - setting three BIG challenges to work on every 90 days. This quarter, I achieved... NONE of my goals. I made some schoolboy errors: 👷 Underestimating how much work was involved. ⌛ Overestimating how much capacity and resources (especially time) I had at my disposal. 🎯 Setting goals that were outside of my control (they relied almost entirely on other people) In this solo epsiode of the Ambitious Lifestyle Business podcast, I explain what I'm going to do about it over the next three months. What's YOUR plan for the next 90 days?
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No Hurry, No Pause?
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
No Hurry, No Pause? How does that fit with an ambitious lifestyle business mindset? What ambitious lifestyle business owner wants to "never pause"? At least that's what I initially thought - then I spent two hours pondering the question, while hiking in the countryside with my dog - and I reached a VERY different conclusion - which I share in today's episode of the Ambitious Lifestyle Business podcast. Could you live by the mantra No Hurry, No Pause?
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Feedback Loops in Business = A Better Business
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Feedback loops in business are a great way to uncover 1% improvements. In this solo episode of the Ambitious Lifestyle Business podcast, shares the FOUR questions he uses to get high-quality, actionable feedback from his clients.
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Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
In , John Lamerton wrote about the Team GB Men's Eights Rowing team from the late 90's and early 2000's - and how they've inspired him to "make his boat go faster". In this solo episode of the ambitious lifestyle business podcast, John tells the story in full, and asks the question: what makes YOUR boat go faster?
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"I Quit My Job - and Moved my Business to SPAIN!"
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
In this episode of the Ambitious Lifestyle Business podcast, Ian Bluck returns to discuss his journey from a corporate job at Lloyds Bank to building a property empire and moving to Spain. Moving to Spain was a family decision influenced by Ian's children, after they attended One Percent LIVE with Ian and his wife in 2024. It's important to take inspiration from others' journeys, and that's exactly what Ian and his family did. Crucially, they knew that there would never be a "perfect time" to make the move, and so, rather than waiting for all the lights to turn green, they started taking...
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My goals went to 💩...
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
I set some ambitious health goals in January. They've gone to 💩. Here's what I'm doing about it...
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Do you REALLY wanna be the best?
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
If you wanna be the best... And you wanna beat the rest... _______________'s what you need. (but do you REALLY want to be a record breaker?)
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Eat the damn marshmallow! 😋
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
You're probably familiar with the so-called "Marshmallow experiment", which "proved" the long term life benefits of delayed gratification. Well, today I'm imploring you to do the opposite - to eat the damn marshmallow!
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A lifestyle business is a REAL business
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Why do people hate lifestyle businesses? My first book () is 70,000 words long. Here are the 1,471 words that have had the biggest impact on readers over the past 8 years - in which I explain my ideal job description, why I refuse to take VC money, and why I'm banned from watching Dragons Den. (The , narrated by me).
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1,000 ways to say the SAME thing...
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Can you find 1,000 ways to say the SAME thing? Are you posting random opinions and thoughts when trying to market your business, or do you have ONE coherant thread running through every promotion? In today's Ambitious Lifestyle Business podcast, I'll show you how to sum up your "big idea" in one sentence.. then find 1,000 different ways to say that sentence!
info_outlineDecember 20th 2024 was the shortest day.
From here on in, it's constant, never-ending improvement.
Marginal gains every day, gaining an extra minute in the morning, and/or a minute in the evening.
No noticeable difference whatsoever from day to day.
After a week, we gain 10 minutes of daylight a day. Whoop-de-do.
After a month, we get an extra hour a day. Now we're talking! We start to notice the difference - eventually waking up in daylight, or driving home in daylight (for me, one of the first signs is leaving a football match in the daylight around late February.)
After six months of constant never-ending improvement, we gain an extra 8 hours, 48 minutes and 38 seconds of daylight - a world of difference. But it all happened little-by-little, day-by-day.
And so it is with your business - if you're following the One Percent Way, you're making your business 1% better every week - an improvement that you won't even notice for months - but that eventually you'll look back over dozens (or eventually hundreds!) of weekly 1% gains, and the difference will be like night and day...