Listen to the founder of Scanners Night, John Williams anddiscover how to have your best year yet as a scanner or multi-faceted creative person.
Have a brilliant year as a Scanner without New Year resolutions, career plans, or SMART goals - and make more money than you have before!
Listen to the whole talk and you’ll go away with your own Back Of An Envelope Plan for the year that’s simple, exciting, effective, and doesn’t box you in.
Is this the year you make your own business work?
Do your plans for the year include finally making good money from work you enjoy?
Whether you’re self-employed and want to boost your business, or you’re in a job and looking to launch your own thing, don’t miss the chance to discover John’s Blueprint to do what you love and get paid for it.
Bestselling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin outlines a common creative affliction: sabotaging our projects just before we show them to the world.
Godin targets our “lizard brain” as the source of these primal doubts, and implores us to “thrash at the beginning” of projects so that we can ship on time and on budget.
We Scanners hate to focus on one thing for too long yet if we don’t focus at all, how can we ever bring all our great ideas to fruition?
At October Scanners Night Nina Grunfeld showed us the secret to “Effortless Focus”; how to find your natural way to focus without making yourself crazy with boredom! Nina Grunfeldis a Scanner and yet has created a business, Life Clubs, running weekly workshops in 12 locations around the UK and has still found time to write 3 great books.
Nina is a also an enthusiast of the Enneagram and explains why Scanners are “Epicures” and what that means.
Do have a listen - just click the play button below.
Nina runs an exercise in this recording with the balance chart. You can get your copy to fill on the LifeClubs website here.
At September Scanners Night, we met the superb Sarah de Nordwall, Professional Bard.
Sarah runs the UK’s only Bard School, was poet in residence at BBC Worldwide, and writes poems on commission. Sarah has performed as bard in locations from prisons to the House of Lords - and now Scanners Night.
Sarah captivated the audience with her ideas, stories and poems and she showed us the importance of story. Do have a listen to her - just click the play button below.
Here are several superb new videos from Barbara Sher who originally coined the term “Scanner”.
These were shot on her recent Scanner Retreat in France which she runs several times a year. The next one is in Corfu.
They’re short and well worth watching.
What you love is what you’re good at
Barbara says, building a successful life begins with seeing the importance of doing everything you love.
Barbara Sher talks about Happiness Levels
H-Levels are one of the many ways to find what you love.
Barbara Sher talks about Resistance
Barbara introduces the theme of Resistance. Getting to know the nature of your inner obstacles is one of the steps to building a life you will love.
Barbara Sher: Do you like to Design, Execute, or Maintain?
Who you are will determine how you do your best work. Are you a designer, or do you love turning plans into reality? Maybe keeping things running is what you do best…
You can follow Barbara on twitter as @barbarasher. And while you’re at it, why not follow me with news of Scanners Night and other creative tidbits - @johnsw.
Find out how you can use the power of youtube and twitter for your projects and businesses at July Scanners Night.
Here’s an item from a recent email I sent to everyone signed up on the Scanners list (enter your email on the front page to get meeting notifications & occasional updates).
Do you have 1000 True Fans?
Whether you’re an artist, performer, videomaker, photographer, writer, or freelancer, you don’t need an audience of millions. You just need 1000 True Fans according to Kevin Kelly in his recent article.
(Kevin is a fascinating guy - ex editor of Wired Magazine and definitely a Scanner.)
If you can attract 1000 True Fans who spend an average of $100 a year on you, your art, or your products ‘n’ services, you can make a living.
A True Fan is “someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can’t wait till you issue your next work.”
I love this idea and thought it would appeal to us as Scanners who have too many interests to develop a huge audience for any one thing.
(There is a particularly brilliant idea for getting paid in advance to publish your own book, CD or film in the article).
Sarah runs the UK’s only Bard School, was poet in residence at BBC Worldwide, and writes poems on commission. Sarah has performed as bard in locations from prisons to the House of Lords - and now Scanners Night.