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My 30 day challenges, day 13 – by Philip Dodson

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Today is Saturday, day 13 of my 8 “30 day” challenges and I’m really finding it easier now, I’ve done nearly two weeks, so I’m even more determined now not to give in. Life and business is all about determination and never, ever, ever, ever giving in.

So today I’m at the hub for our regular @RockStarYouth1 aka RockStarYouth Start-Up Loans incubator events, that we host most Saturday’s. The picture today is of the group at the hub.

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They are all young people and this is the exact same profile that we see every time. This is proof to me how the world is shifting towards more and more people running their own business. All these guys are here today, to secure a start-up business loan, whereas not too long ago, they would be looking for work at a job centre or online.

Self-employment, either through choice or through necessity, is going to be the norm in the developed world within 10 years. In fact the generation Y and Millenials are not bought in to the corporate career path, in fact the complete opposite. They will make up 75% of the workforce by 2025 – they don’t worship money, only 11% of them see it as a measure of success.

Work is now no longer a place, it’s an activity that can be done anywhere. However, what makes any business a success is people. So the work activity must be done with others. Not all the time, but if you stay at home every day, then you’ll be isolated and will become demotivated.

So along with this global rise in self-employment, there is a worldwide growth in co-working space, as it is the perfect place for this entrepreneurial revolution to thrive in.

Co-working offers community and that’s what we all need to succeed in business. People is what matters.

My 30 day challenges, day 11 – by Philip Dodson

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So over a third of the way through my 30 day challenges and already I am doing more, losing weight, getting healthier, apart from a cold this week!!!

Today’s thoughts are about email and whether or not it will exist in 5 years time? Will I be pressing the ‘delete account’ button?

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Email has been a revolution in the transferring and sharing of information/data and has enabled people to be connected in ways that were previously impossible to do. Email has lead to many advances in technology, in fact it is probably one of the main drivers for phones evolving in to smart phones.

However, like most successes, they often have a shelf-life and become victims of their own success. Email enhanced productivity and made our working lives easier. Then it started to become an easy way of pushing things of our to-do list on to someone else’s. Then it got used to externally market your business and the age email marketing started. In my opinion, email is now more of a burden than a benefit.

Now we are bombarded endlessly on a daily basis with email form colleagues, customers, friends, people selling us stuff, in fact the list could go on. We’ve now setup filters, blocks, rules, and so on to stop email, the very thing 15-20 years ago we so desperately craved.

With the arrival of social media, I now see for the first time a world without email. I now find that I am sending less and less email. I’m deleting more and more without reading it. When I do use email, I find that it is slow, as you write your message in a more formal, long winded way, simply as it is an email versus a tweet.

Social media enables you to communicate more succinctly and instantly than email, it’s easier to block stuff you don’t want, as you choose who to receive from. You create your own network and people choose you.

You can easily share documents with others through Dropbox or Google, so the need for sending attachments via email is no longer there.

So like most things in life, things move on, I for one believe email will disappear and I am not sure I will shed a tear about the demise of it.