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.
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.
Creative people, particularly Scanners, tend to have a lot of different interests and run multiple projects simultaneously. This keeps life interesting but makes it difficult for us to easily capture what we do in a way that potential contacts, clients or customers can grasp.
At May Scanners Night, John Purkiss showed us how to pull the various strands together, using a simple model based on Jungian archetypes.
Are you the Caregiver, the Creator, the Explorer, the Hero, the Innocent, Jester, the Lover, the Magician, the Ordinary Guy, the Outlaw, the Ruler, or the Sage?
You can listen to his entire talk for free right now - just click the play button below.
The book will be published on May 18th. Find out more at www.brandyou.info.
John studied economics and has an MBA. He has worked in banking, management consultancy and software. For the past 12 years he has been an executive search consultant or headhunter. He occasionally invests in the companies for which he finds finance directors and other board members. As well as writing books, he takes photographs. See www.johnpurkiss.com
Come to Scanners Night
Scanners Night is an event for creative people who love to learn new stuff, have many interests and get bored easily.
Scanners Night is on the 2nd Wednesday of every month and each one features a different speaker on a fascinating topic.
April Scanners Night was wonderfully inspiring. Our 4 speakers have all created a business and a lifestyle unlike any other in the world and you can listen to the recording of how they did it right here:
Sophie Boss created Beyond Chocolate with her sister Audrey. Beyond Chocolate shows women how to ditch diets forever, transform their relationship with food and lose weight in the process. Sophie and Audrey are author of the Beyond Chocolate book published in 2006 and are now recruiting “Chocolate Fairies” to take their mission nationwide of helping women start to enjoy food again.
Petra Barran, ChocStar
Choc Star is Britain’s only touring choc-mobile - converted from an ice cream van. Petra tours the country, making delicious chocolate goodies from local ingredients to sell from the van. She’s just completed a Chocstar Tour of Britain meeting strangers all over the country who invite her in for dinner in return for one of her hand-made chocolate desserts. Her next mission: to take the van acrosss America.
Sam Bompas and Harry Parr of Jellymongers
Jellymongers create fine English jellies, design bespoke jelly moulds and curate spectacular culinary events. Previous projects have included creating the wobbly Millenium bridge in jelly and an entire scale model of Barajas Airport in, you guessed it, jelly. And they’ve only just started. In April, Sam and Harry are creating Alcoholic Architecture with a walk-in breathable cocktail in Central London.
March Scanners Night was buzzing last night. Joanne Mallon showed us how to get publicity for our projects and businesses without spending £5000 a month on a PR company.
We then did a little bit of Scanner-style networking to help everyone get key contacts and ideas for their current projects. Some of the results were remarkable!
You can listen to the recording of Joanne’s whole talk by clicking the link below:
I really recommend signing up to Joanne’s newsletters which are full of interesting tidbits. Joanne’s website is medialifecoach.com. Also check out her blog.
And if you’d like to be interviewed on TV about what you do but don’t know how to make it happen, take a look at this.
Going self-employed or starting your own business takes a lot of work in the early stages.
You can start to feel like a hamster on a wheel running faster and faster and not going anywhere.
Before you know it, you’re working all the hours available to you (and a few more) and still not seeing much return.
Part of this is inevitable when first launching something. Ask NASA; the Apollo rockets used the vast majority of their fuel just to lift off and travel the first 20 miles. The rest of the 240,000 miles were a breeze in comparison.
The problem is that it’s easy to get used to working hard and being very very busy - and not checking whether what we’re busy with will actually produce the results we want.
Unfortunately, the way we assume business works when we first try it for ourselves is not always correct. I know I invested considerable effort into projects early on that didn’t pan out the way I expected. That’s why it’s great to get tips from people who have been there before us, because it’s like taking a sneaky shortcut.
On Wednesday November 19th you can come and learn from 3 experts who have tried all the stuff that doesn’t work in launching a business and have then found the stuff that does. Mike, Judith and John of the Creative Entrepreneurs Club will be boiling down all those years of experience into 3 critical things that will help you make twice the money in half the time (and have some fun while you’re doing it).
Come to November Scanners Night and find out how to step off your own hamster wheel.
This picture shows the 4 step system to making money on the Internet. It shows how you can create a one page website, instantly switch on a stream of carefully targetted visitors to it and sell a product you don’t have to deliver and don’t even have to create.
The picture is from Daniel Wagner’s talk at October Scanners Night. If you weren’t there, you might need a bit of explanation! That’s OK, because we managed to record Daniel’s complete talk and you can listen to it for free right now.
Click the play button below to hear Daniel’s explanation of how you can implement this 4 step system on the Internet for yourself.
Special Offer on Daniel’s One Day Workshop
Daniel has made a special offer to the Scanners who want to learn this complete strategy for making money on the Internet. His one day workshop is normally £297 but if you use the special link below, you can save a total of £200 and grab a place on this intensive course for just £97.
PLUS you can take a friend for free (and that makes it less then £50 each)!
The workshop is nearing capacity so click the button below to read all about it and grab the discount now.
PS. Daniel’s workshops are the best way I know of learning how to productise what you know so you can start to make money from your expertise without turning up! If this appeals to you, please do check out this one day workshop.
Squidoo is a place you can share your expertise on a topic with the rest of the world. It’s a cross between Wikipedia and a blog and it’s perfect for Scanners. Write a “lens” on your latest passion and then you can link to your own website to create traffic.
Scanners Night regular Rosemary has written a lens on “Earning money when you have a Scanner personality”. Have a read.
Squidoo was created by marketing brainiac Seth Godin. If you’re feeling entrepreneurial, have a read of his blog. I love it.
Going self-employed or starting your own business takes a lot of work in the early stages. 
This picture shows the 4 step system to making money on the Internet. It shows how you can create a one page website, instantly switch on a stream of carefully targetted visitors to it and sell a product you don’t have to deliver and don’t even have to create.