From Laurence:

Back in late 2021 I committed to spending a few minutes each day sharing some of my ideas on LinkedIn, kickstarted by our Vision 20/20 7 day content challenge. Fast forward a few months later and I'd written 100 posts.

The response surprised even me. Collectively the posts generated over half a million views. Some got a lot of love, others less so. But I wasn't so worried about this. The key thing was I'd built a new habit and shipped my ideas 🚀

Then it occurred to me to capture the best of these ideas in a little book in the hope that some of them might be useful.

There's no connecting thread here, just a few themes that I regularly touch on across entrepreneurship, purpose and community.

I hope there's something in here for you.

Contents

People

  • Find the radiators

  • I'm not the best

  • Who would you go on a road trip with?

  • Effortless collaboration

  • Who would be in your hall of fame?

  • Be prepared to piss people off

  • Programs don't change lives, relationships do

  • Feeling like a misfit

Meaning

  • Junk values

  • The journey vs the destination

  • Tiny business. Big impact.

  • Elimination not epiphanies

  • Scarcity vs scale

  • The little things you do today may pay tomorrow

  • What if excitement was a metric?

  • The joy of anticipation

  • Simplicity is a battle

Time

  • The false commute

  • Create more, consume less

  • At what cost?

  • Patience, patience, patience.

  • I just don't have the time

  • Design for laziness

  • Hustle vs alignment

  • Stop playing the waiting game

  • Designing from joy

Money

  • Time ≠ money

  • What is enough?

  • Profit is not a dirty word

  • The cost of inaction

  • Price like a boss

Ideas

  • Cooking up a feast

  • Everything is an experiment

  • Winners and losers

  • Dream slow, test fast

  • A long journey starts with baby steps

  • The stories we tell ourselves matter

  • Certainty is a myth

  • The mindset trumps the manual

  • The next most necessary thing

  • Will it make the boat go faster?

  • When the body says no

  • Nothing is original

  • From words to action

Community

  • How to start a community

  • Disconnection is making us miserable

  • Events are hard. Events are great.

  • Email is not sexy

  • The lone wolf

  • 10 questions to ask yourself