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Adam Bowcutt
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Work is Mental author Adam Bowcutt interviewed by the Bitcoin Association, Switzerland.

‘Work is Mental’ and the BSV blockchain

"XN Mental Wealth Founder Adam Bowcutt has launched his latest book, titled ‘Work is Mental’, through publishing platforms integrated with the BSV blockchain."

"The book is an incisive commentary on mental health and how the evolving modern workplace is affecting the health and temperament of people around the world."

Adam Bowcutt was interviewed by Jamie McKane, editor of BSV Bitcoin Association:

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XN Mental Wealth Founder Adam Bowcutt has launched his latest book, titled ‘Work is Mental’, through publishing platforms integrated with the BSV blockchain. The book is an incisive commentary on mental health and how the evolving modern workplace is affecting the health and temperament of people around the world.

The book has been published to and stored on the BSV blockchain, proving Bowcutt’s authorship of the work and securing it immutably against manipulation thanks to the BSV blockchain’s robust proof-of-work-based protocol.

Bowcutt has also launched special non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the BSV blockchain which not only qualify buyers for a digital copy of the book, but also future benefits such as further content and artwork related to the book.

‘Work is Mental’ is available to purchase from BSV-based publisher Canonic or directly from the author’s website. The accompanying NFT is also available to buy from RelayX.

We spoke to Adam Bowcutt to find out about his new book and his interest in the BSV blockchain.

‘Work is Mental’ and the BSV blockchain

Bowcutt explains that ‘Work is Mental’ aims to prompt the reader into rethinking the future of mental health in the workplace to affect positive change.

‘This book brings to light ideas on how humans must collectively start thinking deeply about approaching mental health in a new way so that positive change happens,’ he says.

‘I was inspired to write ‘Work is Mental’ to help scale my lifetime mission to help change and save 500,000 lives from suicide and depression. “Work is Mental” is focusing on global business, and when it comes to mental health, they must become aware of their powerful influence over their workers.’

When asked why he chose to publish his book and an accompanying NFT on the BSV blockchain, Bowcutt reveals he has always been interested in the idea of peer-to-peer cash and was introduced to blockchain technology by Honā Founder George Siosi Samuels.

‘I first discovered blockchain technology in around 2017 through George Siosi Samuels. I started following one of his online communities to learn more about how businesses can leverage technology through this thing called peer-to-peer cash,’ Bowcutt says.

‘I was intrigued by how he articulated the pros and cons of each faction of “Bitcoin”. I have an affinity for people that gravitate towards the BSV Blockchain because they are smart, creative and informed. More importantly, they want to change the world. I believe the BSV blockchain is a beautiful system that could help solve many global problems.’

Why publish on BSV?

After growing frustrated with the traditional publishing process and discovering the utility of the BSV blockchain, Bowcutt opted to publish his latest book using BSV and included an NFT with valuable functionality.

‘I made the book available on BSV through Canonic, a BSV proof-of-work self-publishing site. I am also in current talks with Bitcoin Books for an additional offering of my book. Anyone that minted a “Work is Mental” NFT is privileged with a first copy of the book alongside the corresponding ownership of their NFT.’

‘Once the NFT minter verifies proof of ownership, their digital copy of the book is released to them, plus future benefits of ownership such as exclusive new author content, NFT artwork and more. If they sell their NFT in future, an additional copy of the book is gifted to the new owner, and so on, along with all the privileges of “Work is Mental” NFT ownership,’ he adds.

‘The book is now also widely available to anyone without the NFT too. I do like the way NFT’s are incentivising people to experience effective blockchain technology and a book launch at the same time.’

Like many others who are searching for a blockchain that can offer real utility and scalability to meet the demands of their projects, Bowcutt opted to publish on BSV due to its efficiency, low transaction fees and transaction processing speed.

‘I chose to launch on the BSV blockchain because it just works! It’s super effective, smooth and efficient to use. I tested a potential launch via an Ethereum-based platform and it was ridiculously expensive to mint due to the sky high “gas fees”, not to mention the recent hacks and theft of NFTs on the platform,’ he says.

‘BSV is easy to use, secure, and costs a fraction of the cost to mint – literally a few cents.’

Bowcutt believes the BSV blockchain’s scalability, efficiency and native support for NFTs and smart contracts could make it a game-changing platform for authors and publishers in future.

‘The BSV Blockchain could have a massive and scalable impact to the way authors distribute their value to the global marketplace. By making their individual ideas and creative works available to more people with minimal cost and without giving up their valuable work and data to the companies that control internet search engines,’ he explains.

‘It’s exciting. There’s still a lot still to do, although I am willing to put the work in because I know in the long term it’ll definitely be worth it!’

For more information about Bowcutt’s new book, ‘Work is Mental’, and how to purchase it, visit the author’s official website.

To view the original article via the Bitcoin Association go HERE

Adam Bowcutt
- 1 min read

Be the First to Rethink the Future of Workplace Mental Health

Launching 3:33pm AEST Friday 18th February 2022 exclusively on the BSV Blockchain.

WORK IS MENTAL Rethinking Future Workplace Mental Health

What’s the future of workplace mental health, and why is it so important?

This courageous book shares valuable insights and predictions into what the future holds for millions of workplaces and inhabitants. Work is mental, and Adam Bowcutt, Author of Confide: The New Psychology of Confidence. How to Power Up after Experiencing Depression focuses his contagious energy on rethinking how humans experience work-life.

Join this journey of discovery encompassing past, present, and future observations of workplace mental health. Gain foresight into how you, as a leader, entrepreneur, or business executive, can powerfully navigate your team and organisation for a mentally stronger future, adding scalable value and saving and changing many lives in the process.

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Adam Bowcutt
- 7 min read

5 Powerful Ways to Help You Start Thinking Strategically

There’s only one growth strategy: work hard -William Hague

Strategy builds confidence, because you have a solid framework and action plan of what to do and, more importantly, what not to do. With clarity comes power, and with power is strength. You’ll gain mental strength, because you’ll know exactly what you’re focused on and why.

It’s like a pilot plotting a course to their destination. Careful and strategic planning is considered before take-off. Safety, weather, weight, fuel, and other variables come into play. For example, a pilot is skilled in the technical aspects of flying a plane. She is also skilled in map-reading, leadership, and collaborating with her team, especially the air traffic controllers. Once the plane is airborne after a successful take-off, the captain must now manage and control the plane to get

all passengers to the agreed destination safely and in good time. All of a sudden, there’s a faint shudder, and the aircraft tilts violently, with no warning. What happened?

Now to ensure the safety of all four hundred passengers, the captain must

adapt to a potentially life-threatening situation with calmness, speed, and

clarity.

Strategic thinking is all about using the power of your mind to execute your

Strategy. ‘What is my strategy?’ you ask. Patience, my friend. We’ll get to

that. But first, let’s go back to our captain, piloting the 300,000 kg flying

chunk of metal hurtling through the sky at 900 km/h. What is going through our pilot’s mind? Panic? No. If this captain panics and loses control of her thoughts, four hundred humans’ lives are at risk of being lost too. So now is the time to see if the strategy works in reality. All the years of training, flight school, leadership skills, growth mindset, and technical mastery comes into play. This is it.

In a calm and controlled manner, our captain makes a critical assessment of

the situation in the most effective way she knows. I leave the technical details

to your imagination. Then our composed pilot delivers a clear message to the

passengers: ‘Hello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. What you just

experienced was a result of a small foreign body entering one of our engines.

I’m here to reassure you that everything is going to be okay and it’s under

control. You may feel some unfamiliar movements of the plane. Please do

your best to remain calm. Our highly trained flight attendants are here for

you, as am I. Thank you for choosing to fly with ...’ You get the story.

Now the story ends successfully, with our courageous pilot flying the plane to

the nearest landing strip by following emergency protocol. You see, it’s all

part of the strategy.

Turns out a griffon vulture had flown directly into one of the jet engines! It

was a serious emergency situation. With leadership, critical thinking,

calmness of mind, training, and execution of a strategy, our captain literally

saved four hundred lives from death.

The importance of strategic thinking cannot be underestimated.

How will you incorporate strategic thinking into your daily life?

1 AWARENESS

Thinking strategically is massively important because it helps you open your mind in thinking of a way that is more likely for you to reach your goals connected to your core values. So in a sense, it’s a way of thinking by zooming out and observing the observer. You are the observer. You’re thinking about your environment, in your environment. However, when you begin to think strategically and practise strategic thinking, you begin to observe the observer. You can look and think from a different perspective, which in turn will help you realise that thinking strategically is beneficial not only for yourself but also other people. So it’s a practice. The more you practise, the better you will become.

2 GOALS

An influential aspect of strategic thinking involves your goals, what you will do?

SMART goals

S is for specific.

M is for measurable.

A is for attainable.

R is for relevant.

T is for time-sensitive.

Smart goals enable you to be specific about your goals. It’s highly likely

you’ll be able to achieve them, because you have clarified exactly what your

goals are, and clarity is power.

Now write down your goals on a piece of paper. Writing on a piece of paper

ensures 80 percent of retention, so your goal starts to act yourself into your

mind and your psyche. Once you’ve done this, you can create your strict

action plan by thinking strategically. So start to purposefully write the following letters on a clean sheet of paper or simply type them up on your smartphone or laptop.

S _______

M ______

A ______

R _______

T _______

Why do you want to achieve this one smart goal?

Why is it important to you?

Then write it down.

For me, the most important purpose for my goal is, one of my goals is to spend quality time with my son, Zachary. That’s my purpose. My purpose is to spend quality time with my son, because my values are family, love, and spending time with my son. Time is more valuable than money and two children. Love equals time, time spent with them.

3 WRITE

Then you write your results. What results do you want? Be specific. For

example, I would like to spend two hours every other day with my son

outside in nature. Be as specific as possible, and then you can write one to three results—specific results—you want to achieve. Then you write your

purposeful action plan. So what specific actions are you going to take with respect to purpose and results you want to achieve? What actions are you going to take? For example, schedule time in your calendar at 4 p.m. I’m going to spend time between 4pm and 6pm. I’m going to pick my son, Zachary, up from the daycare. I’m going to go and play football with him in the park for two hours. That’s the action plan.

You can create one to three actions that you’re going to take, then from those actions, you can break them down into priorities. You can prioritise the action, to most important meeting and least important, and then you can categorise them into two times. Then you can schedule them. What gets scheduled gets done.

Thinking strategically is massively important to reaching your goals. Use your SMART goals to realise your strategy. Execute your strategy to get to your goals, whether they are short-term or long-term, and they’re really purposeful and important to you. By thinking strategically, it increases your motivation—relentless motivation—and increases your energy. And energy is awesome.

4 QUESTION

When you think strategically, it’s massively powerful in how you create your

reality, your personal reality, and your personality. It improves focus, because you’re focused on where you want to go, what you want to do with your life. Your daily life for your entire life. This includes, business, relationships, and financially. Clarity is power. So what is strategy, and what is thinking strategically? It’s opening your mind to a way of thinking about how you’ll get to where you want to go. What you will do and what you won’t do determines your long-term strategy. It’s a dynamic action plan focused on a long-term future outcome or result.

Ask yourself these questions:

What’s most important to you?

What are your core values?

Where do you want to be in five years’ time or even ten years’ time or

beyond?

Building a foundational structure helps you plan out your strategy, what you

will and won’t do. Here’s an analogy. An aircraft and pilot leave the airport.

They know the coordinates. They know where they need to get to, and know

their destination. Beforehand, they have a strategy and a goal. There are

various situations and variables. For example, the weather. The weather could

change. For example, slight adjustments need to be made during the process,

so the pilot might have to adjust the route slightly. However, he’ll still get to

the destination, being adaptable and making slight adjustments, focusing on

the process to enable the outcome to happen which is the destination. Benjamin Franklin said ‘Failing to plan is planning to fail’, so make sure you have a great plan in place by thinking strategically about what you can do. Once you’ve answered your questions honestly and authentically, you can reverse-engineer an action plan, your dynamic action plan, your strategy. Work backwards, say, in five years’ time, four years, three years, two years, one year, up until today. Then you’ll have a great framework to execute your plan.

5 MEDITATE

Start to meditate. Meditating regularly gives your mind and body a gap of

time and space, some space and time to connect with who you are, your

mind, and your body, and it really helps you zoom out of all the noise, of all the chatter that’s going on in the world, in your world, and all the

distractions. This helps you refocus and gain balance in mind. It helps

creative thinking and being able to execute your strategy.

Thinking strategically is massively important in realising your life goals by implementing a dynamic action plan with what you will do and what you won’t do, connected to your values and goals. Have fun with it and be patient and enjoy the process.

Three challenges for you:

1. Meditate for two minutes in silence, focusing purely on your

breath, simply inhaling and exhaling. If thoughts come to you,

racing thoughts, observe them and let them be. Imagine your

thoughts are wispy clouds that are moving across the sky with a

gentle breeze.

2. Think of a creative idea. Think of a random object. Do your best

to connect two seemingly random ideas together. To create a new

idea, write down on a piece of paper two random items that come to

mind. For example, it could be a banana and a cloud. Then think of

an idea from those two items.

3. Think of your last argument with someone. It could have been a