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intercoursefluids · 4 years ago

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The Impromptu Sleepover Part 2 (Final)

One day. All she asked for was one normal day. Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? A single completely average day is not too much to ask for.

Unless of course, you are Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

Then it’s impossible.

People around Marinette start crying as Scarecrow walks into the room, mothers hiding their children behind them as everyone holds onto each other, scared of what’s to come.

Marinette shudders at the pure animosity radiating from the man-turned monster.

Adrien, ever the faithful friend, mistakes the slight shake as fear and shifts so he covers her from the villain’s view.

Everything is quiet before Scarecrow starts on his evil monolog (not that anyone cares).

Tuning him out Marinette looks around, trying to come up with a plan to get everyone out before a shrill scream and crying fill the air causing her to snap back around.

Some of Scarecrow’s goons are holding a woman back as a small boy is dragged up to the monster himself.

Grabbing the boys are he holds the trembling child painfully tight before reaching behind him and pulling out a canister.

Seeing as how Marinette planned this whole trip she made sure to know all about the local heroes and villains.

And the knowledge of what that bastard was going to do to that poor kid squashed any sense of self-preservation Marinette had.

Rushing forward she manages to make it past the few armed men standing between her and Scarecrow and rips the kid away from him just to get blasted in the face by the fear-toxin.

Ringing fills her ears as she collapses to the ground, voices shouting from the corners of her mind.

All of them shouting how they failed her, she should have done better. That she never should have been chosen.

One voice rings out crystal clear amongst all of the other roaring voices.

You said you would save me, M’lady. I should have known better than to trust someone like you. After all, you aren’t even worth the Ladybug miraculous. I have to say, I’m disappointed in you Bugaboo.

Her head jerks up at her partner’s voice, tears streaming from her eyes as she comes face to face with someone she never wanted to see again.

Chat Blanc.

Voices surround her as explosions sound in the distance. Her parents, her friends, everyone. All screaming at how she failed them, how she should have stopped when she had the chance.

Children’s cries fill the air around her, only these are different. They don’t echo from within her head, instead, they come from around her, slowly grounding her. Reminding her that this is just some monster’s trick.

The fear is still there, prominent as ever, but now her focus is on getting everyone out. She hasn’t failed yet.

Slowly uncurling from the ball she had formed she looks around. Forcing herself to see past the bloodied faces of people she failed to save.

All around her everyone is still the same, the hostages in the same places, same as the gunmen (even if they look smug at her suffering).

The only one missing is Scarecrow himself, and turning ever so slowly to face Chat Blanc her fears are confirmed.

In Scarecrows place stands her beloved kitty.

Pure unadulterated rage fills her as he dares wear her kitten’s face.

Lunging at Chat Blanc she hears the startled screams as she attacks him before the rushing in her ears takes over, leaving her deaf to the sound of shattering glass as the heroes arrive on the scene.

Having the advantage of surprise on her side she manages to pin him fairly easily tying his arms behind his back with her visitors’ pass before spinning around to help take down the rest.

An arm wraps around her, trapping her arms to her side as she struggles, a hand coming up to cover her eyes as she tries to getaway.

Quiet shushing and words of reassurance reach her ears causing her struggling to slow.

“W-who are you?”

Marinette winces at the tremor in her voice as she takes stalk of her surroundings.

Her head is tucked under their chin as their surprisingly strong arms hold her in place, one hand still firmly over her eyes.

“My name is Damian. I’m trying to help keep you calm until they can get you the anti-serum.”

She chuckles even as she shakes in his hold.

“It’s not normally a good idea to grab a girl from behind if you want her to calm down.”

He tenses slightly.

“Right, I didn’t think that through. Most people see what they are most afraid of so I thought if I took that away it would help you calm down.”

Marinette doesn’t reply for a while, opting to try and match his breathing instead of replying. All the while subconsciously leaning more against him.

“It’s working I’ll admit, you just went about it horribly. Can we sit down? I feel like my legs are about to give out.”

She feels him loosen his hold and fumble with something behind her before the hand over her eyes is replaced with a piece of cloth. He takes her hand leading her over to a wall before sitting and pulling her with him, tucking her into his side and draping something over her shoulders as her shaking picks up again.

“I’m sorry, can you tell me about yourself? It’ll help me keep my mind off of the panic.”

She feels him nod shifting again so she's leaning more against his chest.

“I have 3 older brothers. Richard, but everyone calls him Dick, Jason, and Tim. I lived with my mother until I was 10 so I’ve only known them for 6 years. They are all adopted but I don’t think anyone even remembers that half the time.”

Marinette can’t help the soft smile that takes over her face as she wraps her arm around him (why is he so warm???).

“You sound like you love them.”

He scoffs.

“Not in a million years, they’re annoying. Grayson is overly dramatic and a hopeless romantic, Todd is a trigger-happy hothead, and Drake is an insomniac, workaholic with a caffeine addiction.”

Marinette can’t help but giggle, her overwhelming fear slowly receding enough for her to think.

“They may be ‘annoying’ but they’re your family, I can tell you care about them.”

Damian makes an offended noise even as he wraps his arm around her rubbing her arm up and down.

“The only person in our family that I actually like is Alfred, he’s our grandfather and the only reason any of us are still alive, but, I guess they aren’t as bad as they used to be. Not that I'll ever admit that to them. Their egos are big enough as is.”

Marinette is about to respond when another voice cuts her off, causing her to cling to Damian as her heart rate picks back up frantically.

“Too late, I brought the anti-serum for your frie- Hey is she okay?”

Damian pulls her into his lap, rubbing her back even as he scolds the other person.

“She’s still being affected by the fear-gas dipshit! I just got her to calm down again, give me that!”

One of his arms leaves her body as he reaches away from her, he starts whispering to her again as something pricks her upper right arm.

It only takes a minute for the anti-toxin to work, causing Marinette to sag in relief against Damian as he keeps his arms around her.

“Seriously Todd! You should have known better than to startle someone like that!”

Marinette takes deep breaths of air, slightly surprised by the smell of Damian’s cologne before realizing she has her arms wrapped around his neck and her face buried in his shoulder.

“Yeah, you’re right. My bad demon-spawn.”

Damian scoffs adjusting Marinette in his arms so he can sit up instead of leaning against the wall.

“It’s not me you should be apologizing to, nitwit!”

Marinette sits up slightly kissing Damian’s cheek as she takes the makeshift blindfold off before returning to her earlier position.

“Thank you, Damian. You didn’t have to help me, much less stay with me and calm me down. You’re really sweet, you know that?”

His arms tense around her before cackling fills the air.

“Demon-spawn? Sweet?! I don’t know who you’re calling sweet but it’s most definitely not my little brother.”

Damian groans as ‘Todd’ keeps laughing, instead directing his attention to Marinette.

“Do you think you’re okay to walk? The cops will probably want to take a statement.”

She nods and they slowly rise, Damian, supporting her the whole time. Once she is finally standing up straight she turns to look at the boy who helped before coming face to face with the greenest eyes she’s ever seen.

Her breath catches in her throat as she meets his electric emerald eyes for the first time since they met.

They stand there, in complete silence before a camera flash breaks through their quiet bubble.

Turning towards Todd, Marinette studies his features.

Pale skin, blue eyes, and black hair with a tuffet of white at the front.

“What do you think you are doing,Jason?”

Todd now dubbed ‘Jason’ grins stepping away from his brother.

“Ooh, the first name. You only use that when you’re pissed. And I’m sending this to the group chat, no one will believe me if I say that you were civil with another human being!”

Damian glares.

“You have ten seconds to run, Todd.”

Jason wastes no time running away as quickly as humanly possible.

Damian goes to follow him but stops when Marinette grabs his arm.

“Help me over to the officers? I’m still a little shaky.”

His sharp glare softens as he leads her over to give her statement.

10 minutes later, they are both sitting on a bench waiting for the police to finish getting statements from the rest of the hostages and for the armored truck that will transport Scarecrow to arrive.

“One time when I was 11, Todd and Drake decided it would be a good idea to kidnap my turkey Jerry and hide him away after buying a raw turkey and cooking it for dinner. They said they found it wandering around outside and decided it would be a good idea to cook it.”

Damian shakes his head in fond exasperation.

“That is the closest I had ever come to crying in front of my brothers. I ended up running and telling Grayson what they did and he got so mad. They ended up fessing up that it was just a prank and they didn’t mean to actually make me upset. They ended up going out and buying a bunch of junk food and pizza before we had one big movie night together.”

“We all ended up falling asleep in the living room all piled on top of each other. Father was so surprised when he came home and he didn’t even send us to bed. He got changed and joined us in the living room. We all ended up sleeping in a giant pile on the floor that night while Alfred took the couch.”

Marinette smiles up at Damian, he had been telling her about himself ever since she had asked him to and she honestly enjoyed it.

“They sound wonderful Damian. Hey, when do you think they are going to-.”

“Mari!”

Marinette is cut off by one of her favorite blondes as he latches onto her body.

“When you rushed forward I tried to follow you and ended up getting hit with the gas and had a panic attack, and then when they gave me the serum I couldn’t find you and had another panic attack, and they couldn’t calm me down for a while and then they had to take my statement but I still couldn’t find you and I’ve been freaking out the whole time. What the hell were you thinking? Are you trying to give me a heart attack?!”

By the time Adrien finally stops rambling his head is in Marinette’s lap and his arms are wrapped around her waist.

“I’m sorry for worrying you, but you shouldn’t have even followed me, that was dangerous and stupid and your dad would destroy me if anything happened to you.”

Adrien snorts.

“If you don’t want me to follow you then don’t take off running.”

Marinette groans, not acknowledging the fact that she is still leaning against Damian.

“Adrien, you are far too ride or die for your own good.”

Adrien sighs, leaning back to look at his best friend.

“Yeah well, Chloe is probably gonna kill us both if we don’t get back to the hotel soon. She heard what happened and has been blowing up my phone since I came to. Ms. Bustier won’t let her leave though.”

“We are so dead. She’s going to actually kill me this time. Damian? Would you like an invite to my funeral? You’ll need a tux.”

Before Damian can even try to respond Adrien cuts him off.

“Oh! There's another person here… Who saw me acting dramatic…. Oh no.”

Adrien's pale face contrasts brightly with Marinette’s, which is bright red from restraining her laughter.

“Okay, okay this is fine. It’s fine. We have two options here, A: We kill you so you can’t spill our secrets or B: You become our friend and are kept under surveillance.”

Damian raises an eyebrow at him not even bothering to acknowledge how dramatic he is still being.

“No.”

Marinette finally breaks, cackling like a witch she rips a piece of paper from her ever present sketchbook and writes her number down.

“Here, this is my number in case you want to stay in contact. Come on Adrien, Chloe is going to kill us.”

She grabs Adriens arm and starts to run, ignoring his protests of ‘He knows too much to be left alive!’ in favor of trying to make it back to the hotel with her other favorite blonde.

She didn’t see the soft smile Damian sent her way as he puts her number in his phone…

But Jason did, and soon will ever other wayne if the video he sent to the family group chat had anything to say about it.

#daminette #I don't now how to tag #marinette x batfam

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kojoty · 5 years ago

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desk politics

Thank you @stepperbox for commissioning me! He wanted a fic about Sight Comes to Mind era Michael playing about in the Archives after returning to the Institute. Is he still employed? He’s really not sure, yet.

If you want a quick-flash commission, send in $9 and a prompt to my ko-fi! Enjoy!

In increments, Michael Shelley begins to wander outside of the small bedroom in the office, venturing out into an Archival space that he used to consider his saving grace into a new, stable, productive life.

He can tell Jon is apprehensive of that, and really, Michael can’t blame him, considering the circumstances of his disappearance, his past, his… employment, here. But at the end of the day, if their dear, dear archivist wants a coffee or tea, and Martin isn’t around, then he’s going to have to accept Michael walking down the halls to the breakroom to satisfy his caffeine addiction.

The problem with wandering is that Michael has a tendency to, well, wander. And that leads him to an old, familiar desk, the empty coffee mug he’d grabbed from Jon’s desk dangling from his hand until he sets it down lightly on the dark wood. It’s covered in someone else’s belongings, but he knows this desk. The echoes of Miss Robinson’s voice filters through his ears, her shrill commands from the open archivist office taking him back.

He hadn’t known much, then. The basics, perhaps. Entities, great evils-- none of the specifics. Michael almost laughs at such blatant naivety; he couldn’t have ever known. He couldn’t. And yet he jumped at the chance to defeat… What? Something he couldn’t possibly hope to comprehend, because Miss Robinson said so? Because he was so willing to throw himself into something greater, to prove… Prove something? To be something? To-- “Y’know, it’s kind of rude to snoop around.”

Michael damn near jumps ten feet in the air, and the panic in his chest turns to sheer gratitude that he’s not… it anymore. Because the poor man in front of him would probably be skewered, if he’d scared Michael in that state. At least it jolts him back to the present.

The man leans against the wall nearest the desk with his arms crossed, and though there’s the beginnings of laugh lines and an easy smile on his face, something dark and haunted has been etched into the fabric of his presence, and it sets Michael on edge.

“Oh-- I. Um, sorry,” Michael stammers nervously, and steps back from the desk. “Just-- Is this yours?”

“...Yeah. Do you... Work here? I know you’re not archival staff. Would have heard you complain about Jon’s absence at least once by now, if you were.”

Michael looks back down at the desk, and finds the nameplate-- Tim Stoker-- and oh. This must be who Martin and Jon have been arguing about. Looping him in. He keeps the desk a lot messier than Michael did, but that seems to be due to the fact that Tim actually owns things, little trinkets and signs of a life beyond the Institute.

“I used to, I, uh-- Well, I used to have your desk, actually, back when I…. Worked here?”

Tim raises an eyebrow. “Back when you worked here. Implying you didn’t for a while. Which shouldn’t be possible, soooo--” “Oh, I, hah, I died. Duh, I didn’t quit.”

That earns him a blink, and then a grin, curiosity smoothing his features into a pleasant mask. “That’s fun. That’s really fun. Makes total sense, by the by. Hey! What the fuck?”

“...I imagine Jon will tell you? Maybe? I was in the Spiral. I’m not anymore, though! I--”

“You got better. Alright! Alright. Awesome. You know--”

“I like how you decorated the desk. Colorful! Do you have any hair ties? I ran out and snapped the rest I had, and-- Oh. I guess you don’t really have long hair. There’s a woman here, though? Does she have any? My hair is--”

“Really long. Yeah. Wow! You are blond in every sense of the word. I’m loving it!”

Well. At least Tim doesn’t look murderous anymore, so Michael will choose to take that as a compliment. He smiles nervously, and Tim beams back at him.

“I have to go make Jon some tea, but, um, good to meet you, Tim?”

“And--?”

“Oh!” He rather likes that they keep interrupting to finish each other’s thoughts. Tim’s frighteningly good at getting him off strack and on track, over and over. “Michael. I’m Michael.”

“Well, Michael, whenever you’re done doing the bidding of our dark and mysterious possibly-evil boss overlord Sims, you should go get yourself a coffee, and with me. So we can chat. And go to a coffeeshop together.”

Michael blinks, and Tim has the audacity to wink at him, and Michael now has to wonder if Martin would hate him if he took Tim up on the offer. He gracefully makes his exit to towards the breakroom.

#sight comes to mind #my writing #michael shelley #tim stoker

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happypeachsludgeflower · 2 years ago

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Part two of the list!

@just-a-madderslife @unifuckandmegadick @hannahhook7744

There is a small boy LOOSE on the Watchtower!

or, Batman and Nightwing won't listen to him, so Tim Drake decides to take his concerns all the way to the top.

Batman can't make it to the Justice League's strategy meeting, so he sends his kids in his stead. This would be a much smarter move if his kids weren't chaotic assholes

Or if the Justice League knew about them.

“The Justice League knew that there was more to Bruce than he let on. This was to be expected from a man who dressed entirely in black and whose adult life had been partly a lie, so as to maintain a double identity. But they weren't expecting this. Bruce had kids. Like, he even had an honest-to-god child; Damian was going on thirteen this year.”

Or, the Justice League meets Bruce's kids (very unofficialy).

Bruce neglects to explain exactly who the attractive young man that seems to know him so well is, and what their relationship entails. Naturally, there are some misunderstandings.

or: Five times Clark makes an assumption, and one time he finally learns the truth.

Jason somehow manages to get arrested by the Justice League while Batman is off-world, leaving his siblings to piece together what happened and him to try his best to not get sent to Arkham, or reveal his identity as Batman's son.

Featuring Jason annoying the League for 168 hours straight, Dick's descent into chaos, Tim's caffeine addiction, and Damian being Damian.

Bruce has rules about his kids meeting other heroes. Namely, that they shouldn’t. But Tim needs to take care of a problem in Central City, and Bruce is out of town. So what's the harm in sneaking out of town and doing it himself without letting anyone know. What could go wrong?

The justice league finding out about the Batfam in hilarious nonsensical ways is Peak Comedy ™

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numgul123 · 4 years ago

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50 Methods Happier, More healthy, And Extra Profitable Individuals Reside On Their Personal Phrases

1. Cease consuming caffeine

Though individuals suppose they carry out higher on caffeine, the reality is, they actually don’t. Really, we’ve turn out to be so depending on caffeine that we use it to easily get again to our status-quo. Once we’re off it, we underperform and turn out to be incapable.

Isn’t this absurd?

2. Pray or meditate morning, mid-day, and night time

In a latest interview on the Genius Community mastermind occasion, Joe Polish requested Tony Robbins what he does to get targeted. “Do you meditate? What do you do?” Joe requested.

“I don’t know that I meditate. I don’t know that I wish to meditate and take into consideration nothing,” Tony responded, “My purpose is readability.”

As an alternative of full-on meditation, Tony has a morning routine that features a number of respiration workouts and visualization methods that get him to a state of readability and focus. For me, I take advantage of prayer and pondering (my model of meditation) as the identical car.

No matter your strategy, the purpose ought to be readability and focus. What do you wish to be about right this moment?

What few issues matter most through the subsequent 24 hours?

I’ve gotten the most effective outcomes as my morning prayer and meditation are motivational; my afternoon prayer and meditation are strategic; and my night prayer and meditation are evaluative and academic.

3. Learn 1 e book per week

Abnormal individuals search leisure. Extraordinary individuals search schooling and studying. It's common for the world’s most profitable individuals to learn at the least one e book per week. They're continuously studying.

I can simply get via one audiobook per week by simply listening throughout my commute to high school and whereas strolling on campus. Taking even 15-30 minutes each morning to learn uplifting and instructive data adjustments you. It places you within the zone to carry out at your highest.

Over an extended sufficient time frame, you'll have learn a whole lot of books. You’ll be educated on a number of matters. You’ll suppose and see the world in a different way. You’ll be capable to make extra connections between totally different matters.

Reference #19 on this checklist in the event you really feel you’re “too busy” to learn one e book per week. There are strategies to make this activity extraordinarily simple.

4. Write in your journal 5 minutes per day

This behavior will change your life. Your journal will:

Clear your feelings serving as your private therapist

Element your private historical past

Improve your creativity

Ingrain and improve your studying

Enable you to get readability on the longer term you wish to create

Speed up your potential to manifest your objectives

Enhance your gratitude

Enhance your writing abilities

Heaps extra…

5 minutes per day is greater than sufficient. Greg McKeown, writer of Essentialism, recommends writing far lower than you wish to—just a few sentences or paragraphs at most. It will show you how to keep away from burnout.

5. Marry your finest buddy

“For all of the productiveness and success recommendation I’ve learn, formed and marketed for dozens of authors within the final decade, I’ve by no means actually seen somebody come out and say: End up a partner who enhances and helps you and makes you higher.”—Ryan Vacation

Analysis achieved by economists have discovered—even after controlling for age, schooling, and different demographics—that married individuals make 10 to 50 % greater than single individuals.

Why would this be?

Being married provides you the next goal for being productive. You're not a lone ranger, however have one other one who depends on you.

Marriage additionally smacks you within the face with what’s actually vital in life. Positive, hanging out and partying are enjoyable. However too many individuals get caught on this part and miss the which means that comes from constructing a life with somebody.

You'll by no means discover a higher private growth seminar or e book than marriage. It should spotlight all your flaws and weaknesses, difficult you to turn out to be a greater particular person than you ever thought attainable.

6. Make a bucket checklist and actively knock objects off

Most individuals have it backwards—they design their ambitions round their life, somewhat than designing their life round their ambitions.

What are the belongings you completely should do earlier than you die?

Begin there.

Then design your life round these issues. Or as Stephen Covey defined in The 7 Habits of Extremely Efficient Individuals, “Start with the top clearly in thoughts.”

7. Cease consuming refined sugar

If you happen to cease consuming sugar, your mind will transform. Really, research after research is exhibiting that refined sugar is worse for our brains than it's for our waistlines. Based on Dr. William Coda Martin, refined sugar is nothing greater than poison as a result of it has been depleted of its life forces, nutritional vitamins and minerals.

Refined sugar has now been proven to make us cranky, make us make rash choices, and make us silly.

Once more, like caffeine, in the event you cease consuming refined sugar, you'll expertise some adverse withdrawals. However, like every good behavior, the consequences of this might be seen within the long-run. What would your well being be like a 12 months from now (or 5) in the event you had been utterly refined sugar-free?

8. Quick from all meals and caloric drinks 24 hours as soon as per week

One-day (24-hour) meals fasts are a preferred technique to preserve well being and vigor. Fasting leverages the self-healing properties of the human physique. Radical well being enhancements happen when the digestive system is given relaxation and the organs get ample time to restore and heal themselves.

An everyday follow of fasting can:

Enhance digestive effectivity

Enhance psychological readability

Enhance bodily and psychological vigor

Take away toxins

Enhance imaginative and prescient

Give a basic feeling of effectively being

Like all the opposite habits, fasting will get simpler with follow. I’ve been fasting for years and it’s top-of-the-line issues I've achieved for my well being.

Fasting can be one of the acknowledged methods in spiritual and religious practices. I additionally use fasting to get religious readability and refinement.

Actually, I might go on for hours about this one. Give it a attempt. You’ll by no means be the identical.

9. Quick from the web 24 hours as soon as per week

Your physique will get an intervention once you quick. Your thoughts and relationships might use one too. Unplug your self from the matrix.

If you happen to haven’t caught on already, human beings are extremely addictive creatures. We love our espresso, sugar, and web. And this stuff are all nice. However our lives will be much more enhanced through the use of these instruments in knowledge.

The aim of the web quick is to reconnect to your self and your family members. So, you most likely shouldn’t do it the identical day you do your meals quick. As a result of consuming is among the strongest methods to kind bonds.

You’ll be blown away by how way more linked you're feeling to your family members once you may give them your undivided consideration. It could even really feel awkward for some time having a real-life dialog with out taking a look at your telephone each three minutes.

10. Cease consuming the information or studying the newspaper

Though the quantity of warfare and deaths by human fingers are lowering globally, you'll not get that message watching televised information or studying the newspaper.

Quite the opposite, these media shops have an agenda. Their purpose is to attraction to your fears by inflating excessive circumstances—making them appear regular and commonplace. In the event that they didn’t accomplish that, their viewership would plummet. Which is why Peter Diamandis, one of many world’s consultants on entrepreneurship and the way forward for innovation has stated, “I’ve stopped watching TV information. They couldn’t pay me sufficient cash.”

You may get top quality information curated from Google information. While you detox from the poisonous filth that's public information, you’ll be startled as your worldview turns into radically extra optimistic. There isn't a goal actuality. As an alternative, we stay in perceived realities and are thus answerable for the worldview we undertake.

11. Do one thing on a regular basis that terrifies you

“An individual’s success in life can normally be measured by the variety of uncomfortable conversations she or he is prepared to have.”—Tim Ferriss

However you don’t should continuously be battling your fears. Really, Darren Hardy has stated you can be a coward 99.9305556% of the time (to be precise). You solely must be brave for 20 seconds at a time.

Twenty seconds of concern is all you want. If you happen to courageously confront concern for 20 seconds each single day, earlier than you understand it, you’ll be in a unique socio-economic and social state of affairs.

Make that decision.

Ask that query.

Pitch that concept.

Submit that video.

No matter it's you're feeling you wish to do–do it. The anticipation of the occasion is way extra painful than the occasion itself. So simply do it and finish the inner-conflict.

Most often, your fears are unfounded. As Seth Godin has defined, our consolation zone and our security zone usually are not the identical factor. It's utterly secure to make an uncomfortable telephone name. You aren't going to die. Don’t equate the 2. Acknowledge that almost all issues outdoors your consolation zone are utterly secure.

12. Do one thing type for another person each day

“Have I achieved any good on the planet right this moment? Have I helped anybody in want? Have I cheered up the unhappy and made somebody really feel glad? If not, I've failed certainly. Has anybody’s burden been lighter right this moment, as a result of I used to be prepared to share? Have the sick and the weary been helped on their means? Once they wanted my assist was I there?”—Will L. Thompson (music and textual content)

If we’re too busy to assist different individuals, we’ve missed the mark. Taking the time to spontaneously—in addition to deliberate—serving to different individuals is among the best joys in life. Serving to others opens you as much as new sides of your self. It helps you join deeper with these you assist and humanity normally. It clarifies what actually issues in life.

As Thomas Monson has stated, “By no means let an issue to be solved turn out to be extra vital than an individual to be cherished.” That would actually be a failure.

13. Go to mattress early and rise early

Based on numerous analysis research, individuals who go to mattress and rise early are higher college students. Harvard biologist Christoph Randler discovered that early sleep/risers are extra proactive and usually tend to anticipate issues and decrease them effectively, which results in being extra profitable within the enterprise.

Different advantages of going to mattress and rising early—backed by analysis—embrace:

Being a greater planner

Being holistically more healthy as people

Getting higher sleep

Extra optimistic, happy, and conscientious

Waking up early lets you proactively and consciously design your day. You can begin with a morning routine that units the tone on your complete day. You present self-respect by placing your self first. In your morning morning routine, you'll be able to pray/meditate, train, hearken to or learn inspiring content material, and write in your journal. This routine offers you a a lot stronger buzz than a cup of espresso.

14. Get 7+ hours of sleep every night time

Let’s face it: sleep is simply as vital as consuming and ingesting water. Regardless of this, thousands and thousands of individuals don't sleep sufficient and expertise insane issues consequently.

The Nationwide Sleep Basis (NSF) performed surveys revealing that at the least 40 million People undergo from greater than 70 totally different sleep problems; moreover, 60 % of adults, and 69 % of youngsters, expertise a number of sleep issues a number of nights or extra throughout per week.

As well as, greater than 40 % of adults expertise daytime sleepiness extreme sufficient to intrude with their each day actions at the least a number of days every month—with 20 % reporting drawback sleepiness a number of days per week or extra.

On the flip facet, getting a wholesome quantity of sleep is linked to:

Elevated reminiscence

Longer life

Decreased irritation

Elevated creativity

Elevated consideration and focus

Decreased fats and elevated muscle mass with train

Decrease stress

Decreased dependence on stimulants like caffeine

Decreased threat of moving into accidents

Decreased threat of melancholy

And tons extra… Google it.

15. Exchange heat showers with chilly ones

Tony Robbins doesn’t eat caffeine in any respect. As an alternative, he begins each morning by leaping right into a 57-degree Fahrenheit swimming pool.

Why would he do such a factor?

Chilly water immersion radically facilitates bodily and psychological wellness. When practiced commonly, it supplies long-lasting adjustments to your physique’s immune, lymphatic, circulatory and digestive methods that enhance the standard of your life. It might additionally improve weight-loss as a result of it boosts your metabolism.

A 2007 analysis research discovered that taking chilly showers routinely may also help deal with melancholy signs typically extra successfully than prescription medicines. That’s as a result of chilly water triggers a wave of mood-boosting neurochemicals which make you're feeling pleased.

To me, it will increase my willpower and boosts my creativity and inspiration. Whereas standing with the chilly water hitting my again, I follow slowing my respiration and calming down. After I’ve chilled out, I really feel tremendous pleased and impressed. A number of concepts begin flowing and I turn out to be means motivated to realize my objectives.

16. Say “No” to individuals, obligations, requests, and alternatives you’re not keen on any longer

“No extra sure. It’s both HELL YEAH! or no.”—Derek Sivers

Your 20 seconds of each day braveness will most persistently contain saying “no” to stuff that doesn’t actually matter. However how might you probably say “no” to sure alternatives in the event you don’t know what you need? You may’t. Like most individuals, you’ll be seduced by the most effective factor that comes round. Or, you’ll crumble beneath different individuals’s agendas.

But when you understand what you need, you’ll have the braveness and foresight to move up even good alternatives—as a result of in the end they're distractors out of your imaginative and prescient. As Jim Collins stated in Good to Nice, “A ‘once-in-a-lifetime alternative’ is irrelevant if it's the improper alternative.”

17. Say “Thanks” each time you’re served by somebody

It’s superb once you meet somebody who's expressively and genuinely grateful. It’s superb as a result of, frankly, it’s uncommon.

I bear in mind at some point whereas working as a busser of a restaurant as a youngster. Each time I glided by a sure desk, whether or not I used to be refilling waters, bringing meals, something… the child on the desk (not more than 20 years previous) graciously stated “thanks.” I even heard him from shut proximity saying it to all the opposite staff once they stopped by his desk.

This expertise had a dramatic impression on me. It was so easy what he was doing. But, so stunning. I immediately cherished this particular person and wished to serve him much more.

I might inform by how he appeared in my eyes when saying “thanks” that he meant it. It got here from a spot of gratitude and humility.

Apparently, one research has discovered that saying “thanks,” facilitated a 66 % improve in assist provided by these serving. Though altruism is the purpose, don’t be shocked as your behavior of graciously saying “thanks” turns into much more to be grateful for.

18. Say “I really like you” 3+ occasions a day to a very powerful individuals in your life

Based on neuroscience analysis, the extra you specific love (like gratitude), the extra different individuals really feel love for you. Sadly, individuals are taught absurd mindsets about being susceptible and loving in relationships. Simply this morning, my spouse and I needed to coax and prod our three foster children to say one good factor about one another, and to say they cherished one another.

It took a number of minutes for our Eight 12 months previous foster boy to muster the power to say he cherished his sister. But, all of our children continuously berate and belittle one another.

the sensation: once you wish to say “I really like you” however maintain again. What a horrible feeling.

Why can we hesitate to specific our love?

Why can we hesitate to attach deeply with others?

This can be unusual, however in the event you inform your family and friends you like them, they’ll be blown away. I as soon as knew a Polynesian missionary who informed everybody he cherished them. It was clear he was honest.

I requested him why he did it. What he informed me modified my life. “After I inform individuals I really like them, it not solely adjustments them, however it adjustments me. Just by saying the phrases, I really feel extra love for that particular person. I’ve been telling individuals throughout me I really like them. They really feel treasured by me. Those that know me have come to anticipate it. After I neglect to say it, they miss it.”“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for phrases left unsaid and deeds left undone.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe

19. Devour 30 grams of protein throughout the first 30 minutes of waking up

Donald Layman, professor emeritus of vitamin on the College of Illinois, recommends consuming at the least 30 grams of protein for breakfast. Equally, Tim Ferriss, in his e book, The 4-Hour Physique, additionally recommends 30 grams of protein 30 minutes after waking up.

Based on Tim, his father did this and misplaced 19 kilos in a single month.

Protein-rich meals preserve you full longer than different meals as a result of they take longer to depart the abdomen. Additionally, protein retains blood-sugar ranges regular, which prevents spikes in starvation.

Consuming protein first decreases your white carbohydrate cravings. These are the kinds of carbs that get you fats. Assume bagels, toast, and donuts.

Tim makes 4 suggestions for getting sufficient protein within the morning:

Eat at the least 40% of your breakfast energy as protein

Do it with two or three complete eggs (every egg has about 6g protein)

If you happen to don’t like eggs, use one thing like turkey bacon, natural pork bacon or sausage, or cottage cheese

Or, you can at all times do a protein shake with water

For individuals who keep away from dairy, meat, and eggs, there are a number of plant-based proteins. Legumes, greens, nuts, and seeds all are wealthy in protein.

20. Take heed to audiobooks and podcasts on 2x pace, your mind will change quicker

Listening to audiobooks at regular pace is so three years in the past. There's a going pattern—notably in Silicon Valley—to hearken to audiobooks at 150 or 200 % referred to as “pace listening.”

In 2010, the tech weblog GigaOm recommended “speed-listening to podcasts” as an general time-saving approach. Software program referred to as FasterAudio guarantees to “minimize your audio studying time in half.”

If you wish to get hardcore, a very great tool is Overcast—a podcast-playback app with a function referred to as Good Velocity. Good Velocity isn’t about merely enjoying audio content material at 150 or 200 % of the usual charge; however truly makes an attempt algorithmically to take away fluff (e.g., useless air, pauses between sentences, intros and outros) that bulks up the play time of audio content material.

Use this system and also you’ll be consuming as a lot data as you as soon as consumed caffeine.

21. Resolve the place you’ll be in 5 years and get there in two

“How are you going to obtain your 10 12 months plan within the subsequent 6 months?”—Peter Thiel

There's at all times a quicker means than you initially conceive. Really, goal-setting can sluggish your progress and diminish your potential in the event you rely too closely upon it.

In an interview with Success Journal, Tim Ferriss stated that he doesn’t have 5 or ten 12 months objectives. As an alternative, he works on “experiments” or tasks for a 6-12 week time frame. In the event that they do extraordinarily effectively, the attainable doorways that would open are limitless. Tim would somewhat play to the most effective potentialities than get caught on one monitor. He says this strategy permits him to go drastically farther than he might ever plan for.

22. Take away all non-essentials out of your life (begin together with your closet)

“You can't overestimate the unimportance of virtually every part.”—Greg McKeown

Many of the possessions you personal, you don’t use. Many of the garments in your closet, you don’t put on. Eliminate them. They're sucking power out of your life. Additionally, they're dormant worth ready to be exchanged for {dollars}.

Eliminating underutilized sources is like injecting motivation and readability into your bloodstream. Whereas all of that untapped power will get eliminated, a brand new wave of constructive power comes into your life. You should use that power in additional helpful and productive methods.

23. Devour a tablespoon of coconut oil as soon as per day

Coconut oil is among the healthiest meals on the planet.

Listed below are 7 causes it's best to eat coconut oil each single day:

It boosts HDL (good) ldl cholesterol and concurrently blocks LDL (unhealthy) ldl cholesterol buildup

It has particular fat that show you how to burn extra fats, have extra power, and preserve wholesome weight

It fights growing old and retains you feeling and looking younger

It reduces fever and acts as an anti-inflammatory

It's antibacterial and thus wards off attainable sicknesses

It improves reminiscence and cognitive functioning (even for individuals with Alzheimer’s)

It might enhance testosterone for males and steadiness wholesome hormones degree for each women and men

Coconut oil is a wholesome various to caffeine. Consuming a small quantity offers you a shot of power with out the side-effects.

24. Purchase a juicer and juice a number of occasions per week

Juicing is an unimaginable technique to get a great deal of nutritional vitamins and vitamins from vegatables and fruits. These vitamins can:

Assist shield in opposition to heart problems, most cancers and varied inflammatory ailments

Guard in opposition to oxidative mobile harm from on a regular basis mobile upkeep and publicity to chemical substances and air pollution.

There are a number of approaches you'll be able to take to juicing. You may reset your physique by doing a 3-10 day juice “cleanse.” Or, you can merely incorporate juice into your common weight loss plan. I do each every so often.

I at all times really feel enormously higher after juicing. Particularly after I get a number of intense greens like kale into my system.

25. Select to place confidence in one thing greater than your self, skepticism is straightforward

Within the timeless e book, Assume and Develop Wealthy, Napoleon Hill explains {that a} basic precept of wealth creation is having religion—which he defines as visualization and perception within the attainment of want.As he famously stated, “Regardless of the thoughts can conceive and imagine, the thoughts can obtain.”

If you happen to don’t imagine in your desires, the probabilities of them taking place are slim to none. However in the event you can come to completely know the belongings you search will happen, the universe will conspire to make it occur.

Based on Hill (see web page 49 of Assume and Develop Wealthy), right here’s how that works:

“Religion is the place to begin of all accumulation of riches!”

“Religion is the premise of all ‘miracles’ and mysteries that can't be analyzed by the principles of science!”

“Religion is the component that transforms the bizarre vibration of thought, created by the finite thoughts of man, into the religious equal.”

“Religion is the one company via which the cosmic power of Infinite Intelligence will be harnessed and used.”

“Religion is the component, the ‘chemical’ which, when blended with prayer, provides one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.”

Like expressing love, in our tradition, many have turn out to be uncomfortable with concepts like religion. But, to the entire finest enterprise minds in latest historical past, religion was basic to their success.

26. Cease obsessing in regards to the end result

Analysis has discovered that expectations in a single’s personal potential serves as a greater predictor of excessive efficiency than expectations a couple of particular end result. In his e book, The Private MBA, Josh Kaufman explains that when setting objectives, your locus of management ought to goal what you'll be able to management (i.e., your efforts) as an alternative of outcomes you'll be able to’t management (e.g., whether or not you get the half).

Count on optimum efficiency from your self and let the chips fall the place they could. The natural output might be your highest high quality work.“Put most easily: Do what is true, let the consequence observe.”

27. Give at the least one guilt-free hour to leisure per day

In our quest for achievement, many people have turn out to be workaholics. Nonetheless, leisure is essential for achievement. It's akin to resting between units on the health club. With out resting, your exercise might be far lower than it might have been.

Foolishly, individuals strategy their lives like a exercise with out relaxation breaks. As an alternative, they take stimulants to maintain themselves going longer and longer. However this isn’t sustainable or wholesome. It’s additionally unhealthy for productiveness and creativity within the brief and long term.

28. Genuinely apologize to individuals you’ve mistreated

Individuals make errors a number of occasions each single day. Sadly—and hilariously—a lot of the time we act like children and blame our errors on exterior components. Analysis has discovered that individuals who don’t overtly and infrequently apologize expertise greater ranges of stress and nervousness.

You don’t want that pent-up power in your life. Make amends and let it go. It’s not your selection if individuals select to forgive you.

29. Make associates with 5 individuals who encourage you

“You're the common of the 5 individuals you spend probably the most time with.”—Jim Rohn

Who you spend time with is extremely vital. Much more basic is: what kinds of individuals are you snug round?

Your consolation degree is among the clearest indicators of your character. Are the individuals you take pleasure in being round inspiring or degrading, hard-working or lazy?

What sorts of beliefs do you associates have?

What sorts of objectives are they pursuing?

How a lot cash do they make?

What does their well being appear like?

All of this stuff dramatically impression you. And it is among the most painful experiences on the planet to turn out to be uncomfortable round individuals who have lengthy been your mates. While you develop and evolve and lengthy for extra, you’ll start in search of a unique crowd to encompass your self with.

Distress loves firm. Don’t allow them to maintain you again. Transfer on however by no means detach from the love you've gotten for these individuals.

30. Save 10 % or extra of your revenue

“I'd have saved 10 % routinely from my paycheck by direct deposit right into a financial savings account incomes the very best curiosity compounded each day. I'd have additionally disciplined myself to deposit 10 % of any extra cash from items, refunds or different earned revenue. I'd have purchased a small home outright with the cash I had saved (as an alternative of renting an condominium for over 30 years). I'd have discovered a job that I cherished and devoted my life to it. No less than you can be pleased even when you weren't the place you wished to be financially. Hope this helps somebody on the market.”—D. Lorinser

Tithing your self is a core precept of wealth creation. Most individuals pay different individuals first. Most individuals stay above their means.

In complete, American customers owe:

$11.85 trillion in debt

A rise of 1.4% from final 12 months

$918.5 billion in bank card debt

$8.09 trillion in mortgages

$1.19 trillion in pupil loans

A rise of 5.9% from final 12 months

The U.S. Census in 2010 reported that there have been 234.56 million individuals over the age of 18 years previous, suggesting the typical grownup owes $3,761 in revolving credit score to lenders. Throughout the typical family, American adults additionally owe $11,244 in pupil loans, $8,163 on their autos, and $70,322 on their mortgage.

Merely switching to home-brewed espresso will prevent a mean of $64.48 per 30 days (or $2 per day) or $773.80 per 12 months. By placing the financial savings right into a mutual fund with common earnings of 6.5% curiosity and reinvesting the dividends into extra mutual funds over a decade, the $64.48 saved each month would develop into $10,981.93.

31. Tithe or give 10 % of your revenue away

“One provides freely, but grows all of the richer.”—Proverbs 11:24

Most of the wealthiest individuals on the planet attribute their wholesome monetary life and abundance to giving a few of it away.

Most individuals are attempting to build up as a lot as they'll. Nonetheless, a pure precept of wealth creation is generosity. As Joe Polish has stated, “The world provides to the givers and takes from the takers.”

From a religious perspective, every part we've is God’s (or the Earth’s). We're merely stewards over our possessions. Once we die, we don’t take our cash with us. So why hoard it?

As you give generously and correctly, you’ll be shocked by the will increase in your incomes potential. You’ll develop traits wanted for radical wealth creation.

32. Drink 64-100 ounces of water per day

Human beings are principally water. As we drink wholesome quantities of water, we've smaller waistlines, more healthy pores and skin, and higher functioning brains. Really, as we drink sufficient water, it’s secure to say we’re higher in each means.

It’s a no brainer. If you happen to’re not ingesting the wholesome quantity of water every day, it's best to critically assess your priorities in life.

33. Purchase a small place somewhat than hire

Except you reside in a giant metropolis (which a lot of you do), I’m baffled how many individuals pay outlandish quantities on hire every month.

When my spouse and I moved to Clemson to start graduate faculty, we did quite a lot of entrance finish work to make sure we’d be capable to purchase a house. What’s stunning is that our mortgage cost is way lower than most of our buddy’s hire funds. By the top of our 4 years right here in Clemson, we’ll have earned a number of thousand {dollars} in fairness and much more in appreciation. Conversely, a lot of our associates are merely dumping a whole lot of {dollars} into another person’s pockets each month.

Paying hire is like working hourly. You get cash when you’re on the clock. While you’re not on the clock, you get no cash. Incomes fairness is like having residual revenue. Each month you pay down your mortgage, you truly preserve that cash. So that you’re not “spending to stay” like most individuals do. You’re residing without spending a dime whereas saving—typically incomes in appreciation.

34. Examine your electronic mail and social media at the least 60-90 minutes after you get up

Most individuals examine their electronic mail and social media instantly upon waking up. This places them in a reactive state for the rest of the day. As an alternative of residing life on their very own phrases, they’d somewhat reply to different individuals’s agendas.

Therefore, the significance of getting a stable morning routine. While you get up and put your self, not different individuals first, you place your self to win earlier than you ever start enjoying.“Non-public victory at all times precedes public victory.” –Stephen Covey

Make the primary few hours of your morning about you, to be able to be the most effective you'll be able to for different individuals. My morning routine consists of prayer, journal writing, listening to audiobooks and podcasts whereas I exercise, and taking a chilly bathe.

After I’ve had an epic morning, and I’m clear on the course of my day, I can make the most of electronic mail and social media for my profit somewhat than detriment.

35. Make a number of radical adjustments to your life annually

Reinvent your self yearly. Novelty is an antidote to monotony. Bounce into new pursuits and relationships.

Attempt belongings you’ve by no means achieved earlier than.

Take dangers.

Have extra enjoyable.

Pursue large belongings you’ve been procrastinating for years.

Up to now 12 months, my spouse and I went from having no children to having three foster children (ages 4, 6, and eight). I’ve began running a blog. I give up my job and began writing full-time. I utterly modified my weight loss plan. I’ve modified my complete each day routine.

With out query, this 12 months has been probably the most transformative 12 months of my life. It’s taught me you can change your complete life in a single 12 months. I plan on altering my complete life for the higher yearly.

36. Outline what wealth and happiness imply to you

“Be every part to all people and also you’ll be nothing for your self.”—John Rushton

No two human beings are the identical. So why ought to we've one customary of success? Looking for society’s customary of success is an limitless rat-race. There'll at all times be somebody higher than you. You’ll by no means have the time to do every part.

As an alternative, you acknowledge that each choice has alternative value. While you select one factor, you concurrently don’t select a number of others. And that’s okay. Really, it’s stunning as a result of we get to decide on our final ultimate. We should outline success, wealth, and happiness in our personal phrases as a result of if we don’t, society will for us—and we'll at all times fall brief. We’ll at all times be left wanting. We’ll at all times be caught evaluating ourselves and competing with different individuals. Our lives might be an limitless race for the following smartest thing. We’ll by no means expertise contentment.

37. Change the way in which you suppose, really feel, and act about cash

Most individuals have an unhealthy relationship with cash. It’s not essentially their fault; it’s what they had been taught.

To be able to change your monetary world, it is advisable alter your paradigm and emotions about cash.

Listed below are some key beliefs probably the most profitable individuals on the planet have:

In a free-market economic system, anybody could make as a lot cash as they need.

Your background, highest degree of schooling, or IQ is irrelevant in the case of incomes cash.

The larger the issue you remedy, the extra money you make.

Count on to make a number of cash. Assume BIG: $100,000, $500,000, or why not $1 million?

What you deal with expands. If you happen to imagine in shortage, you’ll have little.

If you happen to imagine there's limitless abundance, you’ll entice abundance.

While you create unimaginable worth for others, you've gotten the suitable to make as a lot cash as you need.

You’re not going to be found, saved, or made wealthy by another person. If you wish to achieve success, it's a must to construct it your self.

While you develop a wholesome relationship, you'll have extra. You gained’t spend cash on the crap most individuals waste their cash on. You’ll focus extra on worth than value.

38. Make investments solely in industries you might be knowledgeable about

Warren Buffett doesn’t spend money on expertise as a result of he doesn’t perceive it. As an alternative, he invests in banking and insurance coverage. He’s not a tech man. He invests in what he understands.

But, so many individuals spend money on issues they don’t perceive. I’ve made that mistake. I as soon as invested a number of thousand {dollars} in an abroad rice distribution. Though the funding sounded unimaginable on paper, it’s turned out to be a catastrophe.

I didn’t have the understanding to make an knowledgeable choice. I put my belief in another person’s fingers. And nobody cares about your success greater than you do.

Any more, I’m going to responsibly spend money on issues I could make knowledgeable choices on.

39. Create an automatic revenue supply that takes care of the basics

We stay in unprecedented occasions. It has by no means been simpler to create automated revenue streams. Irrespective of your skill-set and pursuits, you'll be able to put a enterprise in place that runs 24/7 even when you’re sleeping, sitting on the seaside, or enjoying together with your children.

An entrepreneur is somebody who works for a number of years like nobody will to allow them to stay the remainder of their life like nobody else can.

If you wish to liberate your time and power for the issues that matter most, both spend money on stuff you’re knowledgeable on (e.g., actual property, companies, mutual funds), or, create a enterprise that doesn’t require you (e.g., create a web-based academic course about one thing you’re obsessed with).

40. Have a number of revenue streams (the extra the higher)

Most individuals’s revenue comes from the identical supply. Nonetheless, most rich individuals’s revenue comes from a number of sources. I do know individuals with a whole lot of revenue streams coming in every month.

What would occur in the event you set issues up so that you had been getting revenue from 5 or 10 totally different locations every month?

What if a number of of these had been automated?

Once more, with a number of brief years of intentional and targeted work, you'll be able to have a number of revenue streams.

41. Observe at the least one behavior/habits you’re attempting to enhance

“When efficiency is measured, efficiency improves. When efficiency is measured and reported, the speed of enchancment accelerates.”—Thomas Monson

Monitoring is tough. If you happen to’ve tried it earlier than, likelihood is, you give up inside a number of days.

Analysis has repeatedly discovered that when habits is tracked and evaluated, it improves drastically.

It’s finest to trace just a few issues. Perhaps simply separately.

If you wish to monitor your weight loss plan, a enjoyable strategy is taking an image of every part you eat. Every little thing. This permits you the time to find out in the event you actually wish to put that in your physique.

So, your monitoring will be inventive. Do what works for you. Use a technique you'll truly do.

However begin monitoring. After you’ve made stable enchancment in your desired space and shaped new habits, begin monitoring one thing else.

42. Have not more than Three objects in your to-do checklist every day

While you shift your life from day-to-day reactivity to certainly one of creation and goal, your objectives turn out to be rather a lot greater. Consequently, your precedence checklist turns into smaller. As an alternative of doing one million issues poorly, the purpose turns into to do a number of issues extremely—or higher but, to do one factor higher than anybody else on the planet.“In case you have greater than three priorities, then you definitely don’t have any.” —Jim Collins

So, as an alternative of attempting to do one million small issues, what one or two issues would make the largest impression?

Dan Sullivan, founding father of Strategic Coach, explains that there are two economies: The Economic system of Onerous Work and The Economic system of Outcomes.

Some individuals suppose laborious work is the recipe. Others take into consideration probably the most environment friendly technique to get a desired outcome.

Tim Ferriss, in his e book, The 4-Hour Physique, explains what he calls Minimal Efficient Dose (MED), which is just the smallest dose that may yield a desired outcome and something previous the MED is wasteful. Water boils at 100°C at customary air stress—it isn't “extra boiled” in the event you add extra warmth.

What's the quickest technique to get your required end result?

43. Make your mattress very first thing within the morning

Based on psychological analysis, individuals who make their mattress within the morning are happier and extra profitable than those that don’t. If that’s not sufficient, right here’s extra:

71 % of mattress makers think about themselves pleased

Whereas 62 % of non-bed-makers are sad

Mattress makers are additionally extra prone to like their jobs, personal a house, train commonly, and really feel effectively rested

Whereas non-bed-makers hate their jobs, hire flats, keep away from the health club, and get up drained.

Loopy, proper?

One thing so easy. But, once you make your mattress very first thing within the morning, you knock-off your first accomplishment of the day. This places you in a mindset of “profitable.”

Do it! It solely takes 30 seconds.

44. Make one audacious request per week (what do it's a must to lose?)

“Rainmakers generate income by making asks. They ask for donations. They ask for contracts. They ask for offers. They ask for alternatives. They ask to fulfill with leaders or converse to them over the telephone. They ask for publicity. They provide you with concepts and ask for a couple of minutes of your time to pitch it. They ask for assist. Don’t let rainmaking deter you out of your dream. It’s one of many limitations to entry, and you'll overcome it. When you style the candy victory of a constructive response, you’ll not solely turn out to be snug with it, you may even take pleasure in it. However making asks is the one technique to carry your dream to life.”—Ben Arment

I obtained into graduate faculty means after purposes had been due as a result of I requested.

I’ve gotten free NBA tickets by asking a number of gamers I noticed at a resort.

I’ve gotten my work revealed on excessive tier shops as a result of I ask.

Only a few issues in life are simply randomly given to you as an grownup. Most often, it is advisable earn it and/or ask for it.

But, there are numerous alternatives at the moment obtainable to everybody if they'd muster the braveness and humility to ask.

The complete crowdfunding business is predicated on making asks.

Begin making daring and audacious asks. What’s the worst that would occur? They are saying “No”?

What’s the most effective that would occur?

While you don’t ask, you lose by default. And also you’ll by no means know the alternatives you missed out on.

Don’t promote your self brief. Ask that stunning lady on a date. Ask for that elevate or large alternative at work. Ask individuals to spend money on your concept.

Put your self on the market. You’ll be blown away by what occurs.

45. Be spontaneously beneficiant with a stranger at the least as soon as per 30 days

Life isn’t all about what you'll be able to obtain or purchase. It’s extra about who you turn out to be and what you contribute.

Apparently, analysis achieved at Yale has discovered that individuals are instinctively cooperative and beneficiant. Nonetheless, in the event you stall and take into consideration being useful or beneficiant, you’re much less prone to do it. And the longer you wait, the probability of you being useful diminishes.

So, be spontaneous. While you get the wild considered shopping for the particular person’s meals within the automotive behind you, simply do it. Don’t give it some thought.

If you happen to’re driving down the street and see somebody with automotive bother off to the facet, simply do it. Don’t give it some thought.

While you wish to say “I really like you,” to a cherished one, simply do it. Don’t give it some thought.

Paralysis by evaluation is dumb. And Malcolm Gladwell explains in Blink that snap-decisions are sometimes much better than well-thought out ones.

46. Write and place a brief, considerate notice for somebody as soon as per day

The messages of handwritten letters impression deeper and are remembered longer than digital messages. There isn't a comparability to this conventional type of dialog. Handwritten messages are so highly effective that folks typically preserve these notes for a very long time. Generally a lifetime.

Jack Canfield has taught that writing 3-5 handwritten notes per day will change your relationships. In our electronic mail world, it may appear inefficient to hand-write and mail a letter. However relationships aren’t about effectivity.

Not solely will handwriting letters change your relationships, it should change you. Analysis has proven that writing by hand will increase mind growth and cognition greater than typing can.

Consequently, the belongings you write might be seared into your personal reminiscence as effectively, permitting each you and the recipient to replicate again on cherished moments.

Writing handwritten notes spices up your relationships, including a component of enjoyable. It’s thrilling putting type and loving notes in random locations on your family members to search out. Put a notice beneath the windshield wipers of the one you love’s automotive to search out after a tough day’s’ work. Hidden, wait til they arrive out and watch them from throughout the road. You’ll see their eyes gentle up and smile unfold.

Different enjoyable locations embrace:

Within the fridge

Within the closet

On the pc keyboard

Of their shoe

Of their pockets

The mail field

Anyplace that makes the expertise a shock…

47. Turn out to be good associates together with your mother and father

Many individuals have horrible relationships with their mother and father. I as soon as did myself. Rising up will be powerful and typically are mother and father make horrible choices that negatively impression us.

Nonetheless, my mother and father have turn out to be my finest associates. They're my confidants. I flip to them for knowledge and recommendation. They perceive me like nobody else. Biology is a robust factor.

Though I don’t see issues the identical means my mother and father do, I really like them and respect their viewpoints. I really like figuring out with my dad and speaking about large concepts with my mother.

I couldn’t think about not being near them.

In case your mother and father are nonetheless round, rekindle these ties or improve the flame. You’ll discover monumental pleasure in these relationships.

48. Floss your tooth

About 50 % of People declare to floss each day. My guess is that’s a big over-estimate. Both means, the advantages of flossing are unimaginable.

Doing so each day prevents gum illness and tooth loss. Everybody will get plaque, and it may solely be eliminated by flossing or a deep cleansing out of your dentist. Plaque buildup can result in cavities, tooth decay, and gum illness. If left untreated, gum illness is usually a threat issue for coronary heart illness, diabetes, and a excessive physique mass index.

Sure, not flossing could make you fats.

Not solely that, however it tremendously reduces unhealthy breath.

49. Eat at the least one meal with your loved ones per day

If attainable, eat a sit-down meal together with your family members each day. It doesn’t matter if it’s breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

We’ve turn out to be so high-paced on the planet that every part we do is on the go. We’ve forgotten what it means to simply be with our family members.

Consuming collectively creates a way of neighborhood like nothing else.

Teenagers who've fewer than three household dinners per week are 3.5 occasions extra prone to have abused prescribed drugs and to have used unlawful medication aside from marijuana, 3 times extra prone to have used marijuana, greater than 2.5 occasions extra prone to have smoked cigarettes, and 1.5 occasions extra prone to have tried alcohol, based on the CASA report.

50. Spend time reflecting in your blessings at the least as soon as per day

Gratitude is the cure-all for all of the world’s issues. It has been referred to as, “the mom of all virtues,” by the Roman thinker Cicero.

While you follow gratitude, your world adjustments. There isn't a goal actuality. All individuals understand actuality as they selectively attend to issues which might be significant to them. Therefore, some individuals discover the great whereas others discover the unhealthy.

Gratitude is having an abundance mindset. While you suppose abundantly, the world is your oyster. There's limitless alternative and chance for you.

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lonita · 16 years ago

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No Logo

Reading Infinite Jest for a book club. Many of the sites linked in this post no longer exist, at least not in the form they did when this was first written. No matter where I go, or what I look at, something in my surroundings will have been appropriated by branding of one kind or another. Hell, they even use crop circles to make brand logos. I also noticed when the last phone book came out, for example, that people were so desperate to use it for adspace/visibility, that a company name was stamped on the edges of the book itself. I have a long list of adjec(exple)tives at the ready that detail precisely what I think of this sort of rampant branding, so I've got to be honest and tell you that when I saw this article over at Jason Kottke's blog, that talked about the Metro Transit Authority in New York selling naming rights to subway stops, my anti-branding nerve twitched like a caffeine addict denied access to the only Tim Hortons in town. In Infinite Jest we have time designated by corporate sponsorship: years with names like "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment". Companies are so desperate to gain that extra inch of mindspace from consumers, that they buy time - literally. It might seem arbitrary and confusing, but so are the numerics of years really. They follow on from one number to the next numeric in line, but they are more or less an arbitrary choice started from an equally arbitrarily chosen point in human history. This brand ubiquity, so dominating that not even the most avid troglodyte could escape from it, reminded me of Naomi Klein's No Logo, which, amongst so many other things, discusses the effects that this sort of globalisation has on human culture. It details, in specific, how some of the more well-known brands in the consumer world do not even make their own products anymore. These companies are merely names that buy the product from unnamed manufacturers; and, as the NY Times article says in regards to the subway stops, "Once upon a time, geographic relevance determined a station's name, but now, the authority says it is open to any naming agreements that can raise revenue for its transit system, including ones not directly tied to location." Names no longer stand for anything but names. I feel trapped by this globalisation of brand; I feel trapped in such a way that I cannot breath. Everything is being packaged, logoed, and shipped by a brand. (I once had to transcribe some conference speeches that dealt specifically with branding, and inspiring consumer confidence in a product by branding everything right down to the method of shipping.) I feel trapped by the idea that no matter what human creation comes to the fore, someone is going to brand it, corporatise it, turn it into some shiny Web 2.0 feature-pretty-fest that looks like community but is really just a thinly veiled attempt at homogeneity or population dumbdown. Remember, kids - a stupid populace is a controllable one. If you're old enough you remember the plaid bondage-style gear that some of the old-skool punks would sport back in the day; stuff they picked up at junk shops, made themselves, stole, but in no fashion did they head down to the mall to purchase this gear from the local Wal-Mart. These days, you can. I saw a kid just a couple of weeks ago wearing what looked to be a very expensive pair of plaid trousers with punk slogans embroidered on them in shiny metallic lettering. Mommy did not knock that together for you during your early-80s Mohawk phase when you were heading out for a night's skanking to The Specials. (See, once upon a time 'skank' was a dance popular amongst those into ska and two-tone music. It was not synonymous with 'ho'. And damnit, I could skank in a pair of Docs right along with the best of 'em.) Everything can be packaged, and is being packaged, even the things that would have once railed against it with the most force. The over-branding, the globalisation, the pre-packaging of human culture, in some quarters at least, is helping to create a very incapable populace, one that may not be capable of choosing even the simplest things for itself without a little nudge from the outside. If you think I'm overreacting, take a look at this. It looks like help, but it's someone else making choices for you. You could so easily slip some extremely pointed suggestions into the answer queue on that one. Addendum: Can't decide if this is another one of those sites that merely looks like help, but is just another way to coddle a lazy populace, or if it might have some useful purpose. Must say that it smells an awful lot like a quiz show lifeline. Yet another site that might only look like help.

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joejstrickl · 8 years ago

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Canada 150: Meet Tim Hortons’ Biggest Fan

Tim Hortons has officially expanded in the UK, just opening its first location in Glasgow, Scotland to crowds and accolades from locals who may have encountered the brand on trips to Canada.

My 1st trip to @timhortonsuk & won't be the last. Excellent service & lovely staff, the cappuccino was spot on!Delighted to get a mug too pic.twitter.com/fZ0x0waRhS

— Mandy M (@mandydoll1983) July 6, 2017

Ironically, it’s not the first Tim Hortons in the UK—or Scotland, for that matter. Pining for his favorite brand from home, a Canadian exchange student at Glasgow University opened an unofficial Tim’s outpost 15 years ago—much to the delight of the company, which donated supplies and featured the story in an ad campaign.

We spoke with that uber-Tims fan, David Mole (right), to get his reaction to the company finally catching up with his big idea some 15 years later—and how he sees Tim Hortons today in the pantheon of iconic Canadian brands.

David, how did you come to open an unofficial Tim Horton’s at Glasgow University 15 years ago?

As an international exchange student from Queen’s University, it became abundantly clear to me within the first few weeks “on Campus” in Glasgow (University of Glasgow) that the “Canadian” student delegation was far outnumbered by our American cousins to the south. Canadians have an uncanny way of finding other Canadians when traveling, so after about 10 days I had found representation from coast to coast to coast – our 30-odd Canucks to their 120-odd Yanks. Sitting at a pub one night with my housemate James Allen and a few loud-mouthed and patriotic Americans it became clear that our US friends simply saw Canada as the 51st state—which we desperately argued!

That night, a light went off in my head—a perfect plan to demonstrate just how awesome Canada is, unique in both identity and character. It really started as a joke, to open an “unofficial Canadian embassy” on campus—to not only be there for homesick Canadians, but to invite everyone over to showcase our ‘true patriot love‘ and shining light.

We decided to call it “Caribou House” as a bit of a play on Canada House in London. So we had an awesome plan to transform our dingy five-room flat into some great tribute to Canada, but… we needed help. So I pledged to my fellow Canadians to write at least one letter a night to high-ranking Canadians and Canadian companies back home, imploring support.

I sketched out a page full of iconic Canadian brands and set to it. Within two weeks of my first salvo of this epic letter campaign. I had received amazing responses from across the country, including but not limited to: the Prime Minister (Jean Chretien), Molson Canada, Bauer Hockey, Canadian Tire, West Beach, and of course, Tim Hortons.

Tim’s and Molsons truly went out of their way to show their support… both of whose leadership had direct ties to Scotland. I had directed my letter to Tim’s co-founder Ron Joyce, a renowned philanthropist and all-around Canadian titan. His personal response was outstanding, as was Tim’s contribution.

I’ll never forget the day boxes upon boxes of coffee, trinkets and a brand new Tim Hortons-branded coffee machine showed up. So, with a little help from my ‘Embassy’ cohorts we set to it. It was time to show everyone in Glasgow just how awesome Canada is!

We went all around the University telling the story of ‘Tim’s’ and inviting people back to Caribou House to have a cup of the world-famous coffee through a sequence of parties. With a little help from our Australian friends, the parties got quite lively thanks to the fine folks at Bailey’s and the local Scottish contribution of a few “nips of Scotch.”

We were even successful in getting most of the American troupe out to celebrate Canadian identity with some delicious coffee. The whole thing was a thrilling “experience-of-a-lifetime” thanks in large part to Tim’s, Molson’s and the PMO.

Founding “Caribou House” led to a late night radio show with a friend from Ecuador and shooting an international student exchange documentary with a friend from Australia. Could it get any more Canadian, eh?

What was the reaction to the brand on-campus?

The reaction to Tim’s on campus was electric. It was an easy sell to locals for a number of reasons. As Tim Horton’s is sewn within the Canadian fabric, so too is IRN-BRU sewn within the Scottish fabric. I would often said, “This is our IRN-BRU,” this is who we are.

Also, many Scots have Canadian ties and anyone who’s been to Canada can’t deny the dominance of the Tim’s brand. The final way we won over the locals—other than having parties, supplying free coffee and just being Canadian��was to say, “You have your local pub, we have our local Tim’s. You have pints, we have the double-double.”

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How did the 2003 TV commercial by Tim Hortons featuring Caribou House (featuring Charles Rennie Mackintosh‘s font, no less) come about?

Sadly saying bye to Glasgow in May of 2002, I returned home to Niagara-on-the-Lake. That fall I headed back to Kingston to complete my final year at Queen’s. One day, rather randomly, I received a letter from Enterprise Marketing in Toronto asking if I would be OK if our story could be used in an advertisement for Tim Horton’s. I said yes, and thought nothing of it.

A short while later I received another random phone call from an Enterprise executive asking me to be at the airport in a few days and that I was being taken back to Glasgow to film a “True Stories” commercial called “Missing Home.” The entire experience was amazing.

The commercial came out that winter and aired from coast to coast to coast in Canada for a few months. People would randomly come up to me on the street and say, “What a great story, I always miss Tim’s when I’m away from home. It’s the first stop I make when I get back.”

So what was your reaction when you heard that Tim’s was finally opening in Glasgow—and at Glasgow University—as their UK launch site last month?

The UK launch and, the fact that the first location was opening in Glasgow, was brought to my attention via social media by a dear old friend who I met on campus back in 2001/2002, Sarah McGee.

Sarah, and so many other amazing local Scottish friends who were part of the “Caribou House” pop-up, have been terribly excited about the news and that now, 15 years later, “Tim’s” has arrived. For me, as someone who follows Tim’s continual growth and success, I was really excited to hear of this latest and bold move into the UK market.

We’ve brought the spirit of Canada to Glasgow. We’ve brought some tasty treats with us too. pic.twitter.com/cly6TenqrB

— Tim Hortons UK (@timhortonsuk) June 21, 2017

Knowing the people both of Glasgow and the broader Scottish thumbprint, I really do believe they’re going to embrace the brand and high quality product. I vividly recall having conversations with top Tim’s executives while shooting the commercial about bringing Tim’s to the UK simply because there is a great cultural fit. Although Brits are known for a piping hot cup of tea, the model’s been there for centuries to sit down and enjoy each other’s company over a caffeinated beverage or two.

I was told then that the greater American market was first on the agenda. I do love traveling over to Buffalo or Niagara Falls, New York, and seeing Tim’s everywhere. I hope they keep on growing and building into many more American and global communities.

I honestly think it’s all of those great Canadian backpackers and exchange students, and those living in the UK, who really made this happen after decades of proudly extolling the Canadian virtues of hockey, Canadian beer, snowmobiling and the undeniable greatness of a Tim’s coffee.

Hands up, who's visiting our Glasgow store today? #CanadaDay #TimHortonsUK pic.twitter.com/2BZlrpj69j

— Tim Hortons UK (@timhortonsuk) July 1, 2017

What is it about the Tim Hortons brand that you love?

This is a great question. I was actually thinking about this the other day heading into work. It was early, 6:30 am-ish. I was in downtown Hamilton, on Barton Street. This particular Tim’s is smack dab between Hamilton General Hospital (one of Canada’s largest hospitals), Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre (again, a big prison) and a handful of emergency homeless shelters, food banks, and addiction/recovery facilities… not to mention a large urban community.

As someone who now works in the social work/health field, I stood there in line and thought to myself, “Only in Canada, and only at Tim’s” would this happen. The cross-section of society and the demographic of those waiting in line (which was out the door by the way) was simply amazing. You had doctors and nurses going into work, recently-released inmates, city workers, two pastors, construction guys, those who had just been kicked out of (homeless) shelters and a few (drug) users coming off their night highs.

Looking around the store, I saw a pocket of old Italian men sitting at one of the long tables, righting all of the wrongs of the world (no doubt their daily tradition), an older lady reading a book with a muffin and a coffee, and a young couple—headphones in, on their laptops.

That to me is what Tim’s is all about… accepting of all, a place to come that makes everything just a little bit better even if just for the moment… in every cup. Tim’s, for me, is Canada. It’s what makes us great—no matter your race, religion, creed or calling. Still to this day, when friends or family are visiting Canada for the first time, I either meet them at the airport with a Tim’s or it’s our first stop. This is what we’re all about, and that I love.

We're in London for one day only at Trafalgar Square's #Canada150 celebrations visit us for brewed coffee, Timbits & Iced Capps! pic.twitter.com/IXvjnJkvLV

— Tim Hortons UK (@timhortonsuk) July 1, 2017

As you think about iconic Canadian brands, is Tim’s still top of your list?

Absolutely, hands down, Tim’s, in my opinion, is still top five with the big boys of Canadian brands like Molson/Labatts, Loblaws, Maple Leaf Sports, Canadian Tire, Bombardier, Blue Jays, Air Canada/WestJet, Bauer etc.

I bet if you were to take a tour across Canada, gauging the “pulse” of Tim’s in vastly different communities—from the far north to the prairies, from east to west—I bet you would see a similar thing I saw in Hamilton that early morning. For instance, two months ago I was doing some work on Six Nations, Ohsweken (reserve) and forgot to bring my lunch. Popping into the local Tim’s was fascinating. Again, a wide cross section of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people were there, enjoying the coffee, food and atmosphere.

As someone who has lived and traveled overseas throughout your career, what do you feel makes an iconic Canadian brand in general — especially as we celebrate Canada 150 and reflect on what makes Canada great, at home and abroad?

Some of my favourite brands all share a few core elements in common. First and foremost, they’re built on an imagination-captivating story. Look at Land Rover Jaguar — started in 1947 when a “Rover” engineer decided to rip about an old WWII US Army jeep on a beach in Wales in order to “build a better, more British all-terrain vehicle, the ultimate-all-terrain- vehicle,” Now look at the powerhouse that Range Rover is today all over the globe. To this day, they still celebrate that origin story and the countless adventures it led to—they challenge their customers to adventure “above and beyond.”

To me, what makes a Canadian brand “iconic,” like Tim’s, is the fact that they hit the nail on the head when it comes to “identity marketing.” That’s another core value of successful brands to me—winning the confidence of customers by letting them know “you get it,” i.e. it sucks being up at 5am for work, but, hell here’s a great cup of coffee.

Just look at the Toronto Blue Jays, another one of my most cherished Canadian brands. Having one of, if not the largest, fan bases in the MLB, I believe, can be attributed to the fact that they tap into the core of our identity: a small fish in a big ocean — and an “American Ocean” — fighting forward every game and actually winning… sometimes!

Is Tim’s any less Canadian to you since it’s been owned by Burger King?

Not in the slightest. I think if there was a dramatic drop in quality then there would be reason for alarm. Maybe it’s because I grew up only about five kilometres from the US boarder in Niagara-on-the-Lake or going to Buffalo regularly, or the fact a lot of Canadian brands like Molsons/Labatts are owned by foreign operators. I think the purchase of Tim’s by a much larger company is both a compliment to Canadians for helping build such a successful economic titan and provides an opportunity for us to share the Canadian story around the world.

I honestly can envision Tim’s being in every airport globally in the future, not to mention Australia, Scandinavia and broader parts of eastern Europe and Russia. The brand potential is really there. Watch out, McDonald’s!

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markjsousa · 8 years ago

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Canada 150: Meet Tim Hortons’ Biggest Fan

Tim Hortons has officially expanded in the UK, just opening its first location in Glasgow, Scotland to crowds and accolades from locals who may have encountered the brand on trips to Canada.

My 1st trip to @timhortonsuk & won't be the last. Excellent service & lovely staff, the cappuccino was spot on!Delighted to get a mug too http://pic.twitter.com/fZ0x0waRhS

— Mandy M (@mandydoll1983) July 6, 2017

David, how did you come to open an unofficial Tim Horton’s at Glasgow University 15 years ago?

What was the reaction to the brand on-campus?

Also, many Scots have Canadian ties and anyone who’s been to Canada can’t deny the dominance of the Tim’s brand. The final way we won over the locals—other than having parties, supplying free coffee and just being Canadian—was to say, “You have your local pub, we have our local Tim’s. You have pints, we have the double-double.”

youtube

How did the 2003 TV commercial by Tim Hortons featuring Caribou House (featuring Charles Rennie Mackintosh‘s font, no less) come about?

So what was your reaction when you heard that Tim’s was finally opening in Glasgow—and at Glasgow University—as their UK launch site last month?

The UK launch and, the fact that the first location was opening in Glasgow, was brought to my attention via social media by a dear old friend who I met on campus back in 2001/2002, Sarah McGee.

We’ve brought the spirit of Canada to Glasgow. We’ve brought some tasty treats with us too. http://pic.twitter.com/cly6TenqrB

— Tim Hortons UK (@timhortonsuk) June 21, 2017

Hands up, who's visiting our Glasgow store today? #CanadaDay #TimHortonsUK http://pic.twitter.com/2BZlrpj69j

— Tim Hortons UK (@timhortonsuk) July 1, 2017

What is it about the Tim Hortons brand that you love?

We're in London for one day only at Trafalgar Square's #Canada150 celebrations visit us for brewed coffee, Timbits & Iced Capps! http://pic.twitter.com/IXvjnJkvLV

— Tim Hortons UK (@timhortonsuk) July 1, 2017

As you think about iconic Canadian brands, is Tim’s still top of your list?

Is Tim’s any less Canadian to you since it’s been owned by Burger King?

Get more branding insights in our Q&A series. Suggest a Q&A: [email protected].

The post Canada 150: Meet Tim Hortons’ Biggest Fan appeared first on brandchannel:.

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davisgordonc · 8 years ago

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Canada 150: Meet Tim Hortons’ Biggest Fan

Tim Hortons has officially expanded in the UK, just opening its first location in Glasgow, Scotland to crowds and accolades from locals who may have encountered the brand on trips to Canada.

My 1st trip to @timhortonsuk & won't be the last. Excellent service & lovely staff, the cappuccino was spot on!Delighted to get a mug too http://pic.twitter.com/fZ0x0waRhS

— Mandy M (@mandydoll1983) July 6, 2017

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David, how did you come to open an unofficial Tim Horton’s at Glasgow University 15 years ago?

What was the reaction to the brand on-campus?

Also, many Scots have Canadian ties and anyone who’s been to Canada can’t deny the dominance of the Tim’s brand. The final way we won over the locals—other than having parties, supplying free coffee and just being Canadian—was to say, “You have your local pub, we have our local Tim’s. You have pints, we have the double-double.”

youtube

How did the 2003 TV commercial by Tim Hortons featuring Caribou House (featuring Charles Rennie Mackintosh‘s font, no less) come about?

So what was your reaction when you heard that Tim’s was finally opening in Glasgow—and at Glasgow University—as their UK launch site last month?

The UK launch and, the fact that the first location was opening in Glasgow, was brought to my attention via social media by a dear old friend who I met on campus back in 2001/2002, Sarah McGee.

We’ve brought the spirit of Canada to Glasgow. We’ve brought some tasty treats with us too. http://pic.twitter.com/cly6TenqrB

— Tim Hortons UK (@timhortonsuk) June 21, 2017

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Hands up, who's visiting our Glasgow store today? #CanadaDay #TimHortonsUK http://pic.twitter.com/2BZlrpj69j

— Tim Hortons UK (@timhortonsuk) July 1, 2017

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What is it about the Tim Hortons brand that you love?

We're in London for one day only at Trafalgar Square's #Canada150 celebrations visit us for brewed coffee, Timbits & Iced Capps! http://pic.twitter.com/IXvjnJkvLV

— Tim Hortons UK (@timhortonsuk) July 1, 2017

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As you think about iconic Canadian brands, is Tim’s still top of your list?

Is Tim’s any less Canadian to you since it’s been owned by Burger King?

Get more branding insights in our Q&A series. Suggest a Q&A: [email protected].

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