The 10-step guide to being lucky & A system for sharing your ideas in 4 weeks
Future Work/Life #90
Future Work/Life is my newsletter in which I explore the changing relationship between work and our personal lives. Every week, I share something I’ve written, a few things I’ve enjoyed reading, and something great to listen to. If you find it interesting, please share it!
Calling all 1st-time and future founders, CEOs and business leaders!
I'm building a live, three-week cohort-based course on Maven to help you create a system to share your ideas with the world.
I'll be starting with a small group of students in the autumn so I can perfect the material, and that beta program will cost $950, a significant discount over the final price.
Fill out this survey to get on the waitlist and be the first to hear when enrolments open!
There's no payment or commitment yet! This is just letting me know that you're interested in learning more when it launches.
How will the course work, and what will you learn?
Expect live sessions, a community of other 1st-time and future founders & CEOs, tried-and-tested techniques & templates for developing a consistent habit for sharing your ideas, and expert guest appearances.
You’ll learn:
Why instead of aspiring for the impossibility of work/life balance, a Work/Life Flywheel is the secret for busy 1st-time founders and CEOs to build a high-performance career.
How to design a system to collect, organise and share your ideas at scale.
Use digital communications to grow your business by attracting new clients and the best talent.
The content of the course is based on my book, 'Work/Life Flywheel: Harness the work revolution and reimagine your career without fear' (published January 2023).
If you recognise any of these challenges, then register your interest as this course is designed for you:
You never have enough inbound sales leads.
Winning new clients takes too long.
Hiring talent is expensive and slow.
You feel stressed and burnt out.
Sharing your ideas is well down your list of priorities
The course draws on insights from my 10+ years of experience as a founder and CEO, my work advising start-up and scale-up leadership teams on achieving growth, and from interviews with business and thought leaders on my Top 10 Careers podcast, including:
Bestselling authors like Azeem Azhar, Bruce Daisley, Daniel H. Pink, Grace Lordan & Lynda Gratton.
Founders & CEOs like Glenn Elliot, Kathrin Hamm, Nik Whitfield, Robert Glazer & Stephanie Nadi Olson.
Investors like Allison Baum Gates, Andy Ayim MBE and Cleo Sham.
Legendary digital writers & podcasters like Christopher Lochhead, Dror Poleg, Hung Lee, Justin Welsh & Nicolas Cole.
World-leading subject matter experts like Damian Hughes, Emily Balcetis, Jennifer Moss and Rory Sutherland.
What will you leave the course with?
By the end of the four weeks, you'll enjoy sharing your ideas with the world rather than dread finding the time to do it.
Within three months of putting the systems into practice, you'll have:
Built trust and credibility with potential clients, future employees and collaborators.
Reduced the amount you spend on outbound sales and marketing.
Lowered your recruitment costs.
Become a go-to person for thoughts and opinions about the future of your category.
Again, filling in the survey doesn't commit you to sign up but will mean you have the first option to access the course at this exclusive discounted rate, so please share with anyone else you know who may be interested.
Thanks!
Ollie
The Writing:
The 10-Step Guide To Being Lucky:
1. Keep an open mind to new opportunities
2. Reveal more about yourself to those you’re speaking with
3. Listen closely to discover shared interests with your connections
4. Get comfortable with uncertainty and celebrate the unexpected
5. Stop trying to control everything and embrace the process
6. Develop a system for collecting ideas and connecting dots
7. Get out IRL and experience something new
8. Regularly change your habits and routines
9. Reframe obstacles as opportunities
10. Share your IDEAS with the world
In Christian Busch’s book, Connect the Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck, he explores the art and science of good luck.
Cultivating serendipity means having a bias for action in our work/lives.
Smart luck requires being open to change and a fresh way of thinking.
Acknowledging we can only control so much makes you resilient.
And embracing new possibilities makes life more exciting!
Listen to my chat with Christian in this week’s podcast.
The Reading:
Based on this new survey from PwC, only 11% of office workers want to return to the office full-time. Bosses, take note.
Although this report from the ONS shows that you’re far more likely to be a hybrid or fully remote worker if you’re a higher earner. Bosses take note.
Economic prospects don’t look good, and the increasing cost of living is putting pressure on many, but it isn’t yet putting people off from looking for pastures new. As this BBC story explains, “Almost one in five UK workers say they are likely to change jobs in the next 12 months as they seek better pay and job satisfaction.”
Why?
18% said they were "very or extremely likely" to switch to a new employer within the next 12 months
some 32% also said they were moderately or slightly likely to switch and 16% were planning to leave the workforce temporarily or permanently
an increase in pay was the main motivator for changing jobs (72%), followed by wanting a more fulfilling job (68%) and to "truly be themselves at work" (63%)
Bosses take note.
The Listening:
Christian Busch’s excellent book, Connect the Dots, references British researcher Richard Wiseman’s work on luck. Wiseman was recently on Tim Ferris’ podcast in a wonderfully wide-ranging conversation from the psychology of magic and the supernatural to dreaming and the unreliability of our memories. It’s a great listen!