Be a Free Range Human: Escape the 9-5, Create a Life You Love and Still Pay the Bills

in my research I’ve found that overnight success happens after many nights of getting off your butt and making stuff happen. The trick is making the right stuff happen so you can enjoy your life.

When I coach clients on finding their idea, we can spend a whole session talking through options but I can almost guarantee that what they will end up doing is that little throwaway idea they mention in the last five minutes of the session. It’s uncanny. The person will say that they have a ‘little idea’ but that it is too obvious, or maybe too cro

‘Someday’ is code for never; ‘one day’ is the path for taking your dreams to the grave with you.

Steve Jobs said, ‘You’ve got to find what you love… The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.’

When I work with clients I can almost guarantee that the very thing they say is ‘not that valuable’ is the biggest thing they have to offer.

You see, from a young age you’ve been sold a lie. That lie is that you have to be good at everything in order to be ‘good enough’. When you were at school and getting that report card, where was the focus: on the subjects you were great at or the ones that ‘need work’? If you got private tuition was it for subjects at which you were amazing or the

From now, get in the habit of asking ‘why am I really attracted to this idea?’ and make a note of the themes you notice. This will build up a strong set of clues that we will use to build your personalized free range solution.

you shine, the parts you find natural, those are put to one side. You are ‘good enough’ at that already, the logic goes. I call this the ‘all-rounder’ myth. As a Free Range Human you’re going to have to flip that right around. By focusing on your strengths, you tap into your shortcut to loving what you do and standing out in the process.

you won’t be able to do that sort of thing when you grow up and get a proper job.’