Professional Documents
Culture Documents
eChapter
Build Your Business in 90 Minutes A Day reveals lessons from the true
stories of everyday entrepreneurs who dedicate 90 minutes a day to
building their success. Woven amongst these inspirational tales are the
remarkable accounts of world-changing events from English history,
space and popular culture, that were determined in just 90 minutes.
Amidst pages of startling science fact surrounding this magical number,
you will learn just how powerful it can be when applied to your life. An
hour and a half will never seem quite the same again.
Nigel has built eight separate million pound+ businesses from scratch
and won a shed full of awards in the process. No one knows better than
him what it takes to build big businesses fast!
Extracted from Build Your Business in 90 Minutes A Day published in 2015 by Capstone Publishing,
The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ. UK. Phone +44(0)1243 779777
Copyright 2015 Nigel Botterill and Martin Gladdish
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form
or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90
Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4LP, UK, without the permission in writing of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher
should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West
Sussex, PO19 8SQ, England, or emailed to permreq@wiley.co.uk.
Despite a lifetime wrought with personal hardship, war and opposition, Alfreds remarkable
achievements were made possible through an inspirational timekeeping idea that
originated in China in the sixth century. And being the brilliant innovator and leader that he
was, he turned this early scientific breakthrough into a powerful planning strategy. Alfred
the Great created the first ever 90 minute chunk timer using candles.
His candle clock consisted of six candles of uniform diameter and each measuring exactly
12 inches high, made from 72 penny weights of wax. The candles were marked at every
inch and had been timed to burn for four hours in total, so each mark represented 20
minutes of time. Its widely reported that Alfred would usually work on each separate
project for four or five 20minute chunks at a time in other words, an average of 90
minutes.
This ingenious device and an unquenchable thirst for education and achievement
underpinned the colossal amount of organizational and planning work that made Alfred so
famous. This discipline became a part of his daily routine, enabling him to repair castles,
restore life to ruined cities, set up civic governments, revise the laws of the kingdom,
fight wars, negotiate international politics, commit time to personal learning and apply
sweeping reform throughout a rapidly growing nation.
activity within any given day. The Oxford English Dictionary defines ultradian as a rhythm
or cycle having a period of recurrence shorter than a day but longer than an hour.
10