Kardamili Town Hall (Not The Post Office!) My first vlogging camera arrived at Katerina's Supermarket - you can watch me unboxing it here if you are into that - and it was totally wrong which makes the video quite funny. I ordered a second camera immediately expecting it to take the full three weeks the first took to arrive but it came within two weeks so the delay must have been sheer weight of packages before Christmas. The second Unboxing video is here - along with a lot of laughter and … [Read more...]
Clicks & Leads Vzine | 001 | No Money? No Excuse!
This week Nicola's talking about how having no money is no excuse for not getting a business started online. Episode 001 of a weekly video ezine (Vzine) by entrepreneur, author, podcaster, speaker, Nicola Cairncross. All production, music & drone credits can be found on YouTube, just click the video above to view credits and live links. … [Read more...]
Is It Working Yet?
Judith and I have just recorded the Christmas and New Year edition of the "Own It!" podcast. We recorded them back to back and used the Christmas edition to look back over 2016 and the New Year edition to look forwards, both from a business perspective. As we move towards Christmas, that commercially fabricated day that really only means anything to people with young children or big families who all like to get together in one house each year, it’s worth a bit of a personal review I … [Read more...]
Neck Deep In Tech & Hanging My Arse Out
It’s been a busy old week, this week and I don’t mean socially, although we did go out to Dionysius Taverna on Sunday to meet a friend of Stella’s for dinner. Excellent bean soup and chicken fillet on the grill and a very lively evening it turned out to be! This week I’ve been neck deep in all the technology for my new course, The Pivot Point. Each stage of the marketing requires a bit of tech or two and while they all do integrate together, you have to know HOW they all fit before you can … [Read more...]
It’s A Little Fresh This Week!
It’s so cold! I knew it would get colder as December / January approached as I’ve read "100 Days Of Solitude" by Daphne Kapsali. (By the way, you can get that most excellent book on Kindle during December for just £1 / $1 so go and treat yourself) Daphne lives on the tiny island of Sifnos, dividing her time between London and Greece. Sifnos is slightly further away from the equator than Stoupa (but not much). After reading Daphne's book, I checked before we came so I was part … [Read more...]
The Confusion Clears
As listeners to our “Own It!” podcast will know I’ve been going through a bit of a transition period with my business along with the changes in my life. Well, more like a seismic shift really! My co-host on “Own It!” Judith Morgan and I talk about this a lot on the podcast as we are both rampant Creator personality types (as are many of our clients) and it’s hard for creators to stop creating. New business ideas being particularly difficult to resist. (I've included a list of helpful … [Read more...]
Chasing The Kalamata Bus
Nicola here and I'm recording in between olive grove cutting so you might hear the odd buzz saw in the background! It’s been a mixed bag of emotions this week, with tension running high at some points, both internal and external. One of the reasons to come out to Greece was to get away from my day to day routine in Shoreham, to jolt me out of my rut. I felt very much like a hamster on a wheel, albeit it a comfy, cosy wheel, but I felt instinctively that to escape from that wheel I needed … [Read more...]
Doing Nothing Versus Digital Nomad Productivity
One of my goals in moving to Greece for 6 months was to learn how to create optimum Digital Nomad productivity versus learning how to properly do nothing. To stop working so much or, as is often the case, to just stop sitting in front of either a computer or TV screen for so many hours a day so that when I travel and work, as opposed to living in Greece and working, I'll be able to actually enjoy my days. I had this fond idea that I'd be able to learn how to actually properly "do nothing" … [Read more...]
If You Want A Good Fire, You Need Premium Kindling!
You will be glad to know our pile of wood is now safely covered and no longer getting wet when it rains. We found a nifty long off-cut of retro kitchen tablecloth upstairs in Katerina’s Supermarket that did the job nicely. 13 euros well spent, I thought although there was a gasp from Elias when we told him that we’d spent so much. Well, needs must, a tarp wasn’t appearing any time soon of it’s own volition. The woodpile cover is not the only thing we've accidentally overspent on … [Read more...]
It’s All Greek To Me!
We have been here for over a week now and the days are starting to settle into a bit of a gentle rhythm. I usually wake at or around 8am, no matter how badly I slept or how late we were up the night before. I brush my teeth, get my lenses in, get the coffee on, open the main door to air us out (after the previous night’s anti-mossie coil burning) and get up onto that “balcony with a view”. I do set my alarm but mostly, I don’t need it. While the sun is already up at that time so it’s … [Read more...]