Stacey McIntosh

Content strategist at @sageuk. Husband, dad, #fitness fan, Londoner in Newcastle, #LiverpoolFC fan. All views my own

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We won! #SageAdvice is the best business digital and tech blog! Congrats to everyone who works on it!🏆🏆@ukblogawards @sageuk @its_josie @beatricewhelan @RomoAuthor @DH_Inbound @Asavin @KeirThomsBryant @pragmaticweb @AshleyHindsman @bryancollins #UKBA18 #FridayFeeling

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Impressive stuff from Ellie! And I love her business idea - check out what it is... #SageInsights https://t.co/DhmDh8Fy6S

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Looking forward to this one #SageInsights https://t.co/wHCC6DNHTT

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We’re BACK! 🥧

Join us Saturday at the Sage van in London Waterloo with our customer @pieminister for free gameday fuel!

Predict the winner of @EnglandRugby v @scotlandteam and grab your complimentary pie! 🏉

See you there!

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Getting ready for the next round of the Six Nations - but what role does data play for @finn_russell? #SageInsights https://t.co/9ytvp1eTEz

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“There’s a lot of pressure, the stakes are really high.” 👀

@finn_russell talks us through how he used data to get ready for the Calcutta Cup this weekend. 📊

#SageInsights #SageRugby #GuinnessM6N | @ITVSport @MaggieAlphonsi

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The #SageDownload has hit 50,000 subscribers 🥳

Huge thanks to our contributors and to everyone who has subscribed so far!

Listen to hear @DavidProsserind & @ChrisTorney chat with our CEO, @SteveHare, in Edition 1: Unlocking Growth Through Technology 👉 https://t.co/Id6ZY8UcDs

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Want some top tips on using tech to grow your business? Check this out... https://t.co/0OL6q1Tp3d

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Introducing #SageDownload, our new LinkedIn newsletter on how tech and innovation are driving global business growth 🌍

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[Eric Partaker @Eric_Partaker]

"What gets measured, gets improved."

36 KPIs every CEO needs to know:

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"Sometimes success is going to the gym because you told yourself you would. Sometimes success is being kind even when someone doesn’t deserve it. Sometimes success is forgiving yourself for your mistakes. ... "

— Found in @farnamstreet's Brain Food Newsletter

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Watch or read our emotional interview with Jürgen Klopp in full as he discusses today’s news in detail and explains the reasons for his decision.

[Alex Garcia 🔍 @alexgarcia_atx]

Twitter threads are the new blogs.

Over the last 5 weeks, I've 32x my Twitter following posting a thread a day.

These 15 learnings will help your threads go viral 🧵

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

The greatest muscle you can build is urgency.

Shrink your timelines...

• When you say next quarter, push for next 60 days.

• When you say next month, push for 2 weeks.

• When you say next week, push for 24 hours.

Not everything will get done on the new timeline, but you'll build a habit that will make you more successful than other people.

Decrease the time between having an idea and getting it done. Everything changes.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Gym/Exercise newbies.

1. If you plan to jog or run, INVEST in trainers that are comfortable, long lasting and give plenty of cushion. You don't put scooter wheels on a bin lorry. Your converse all star or 20 year old sambas will get you injured.

2. Intervals. Read my last post. It keeps your brain interested.

3. Make a playlist. If the Rocky theme gets you through that 9/10 RPE minute, then listen to it. Songs that gets you going.

4. Don't negotiate with yourself when you get up or have finished work and say "I'll go tomorrow". Have your gear in a bag near the door ( kit, trainers, bottle, gum, small gym towel, toiletry bag, big towel) and Just. Fucking. Go. Out. The. Door. I've never seen anyone get out the door, walk 200 yards or enter the gym and not do something. When that voice says "stay in bed" or "I'll go tomorrow", that's when you NEED to go.

5. 18 and 80 year olds will chat to you within a month at a gym. It's a place where everyone in there is pushing their own boundaries and the respect you'll get from everyone will be self fulfilling. That chat and "hey, how are you?" is in itself a mental health tonic.

6. Perfume and aftershave. Never wear either in the gym. Body heat plus perfume or aftershave amplifies to become genuinely off putting to others.

7. Buy a cheap 1 litre water bottle. Sip not glug regularly in the gym. Any left after the session, chug the lot.

8. Motivation. Won't exist 90% of the sessions you do. That's the truth. But the habit of going will put you through even the hardest days when you don't fancy it, and often come out as the most satisfying sessions. I'll repeat, you will not be motivated 90% + times you exercise. But the payback when you feel incredible, recognise yourself in a mirror, have plenty of energy for yourself, friends and family is priceless. It really is.

9. Do it for you. It's your time for you. 1 hour, 30 mins, 10 mins. Fuck everything and everyone else off. You've earned the right to build yourself as you want to be. Take all the credit because only you are doing it.

10. Get an Instagram account. There are thousands of free PT Sessions, runners, weightlifters, women's sessions, peri menopausal fitness recommendations, limited ability sessions, the lot. Follow a few and let them guide you. There is no longer an excuse that you don't know what to do or eat, it's only your current habits holding you back. Change the habits and create new ones.

11. Patience. That's not an excuse to not go until next Thursday, it means having painfully small goals. You're lighting a tiny 1 twig fire that come summertime will be a roaring fire.

12. Weights. 10 reps, 3 times.

Quads ( front thigh)
Hamstrings ( back thigh)
Chest Press
Low Row
Pec Fly
Squats

13. Food/alcohol. Brutal but simple. There are no safe levels of alcohol, none. So if you're a regular or big drinker, I wouldn't bother starting. A recipe to breakdown and be frustrated. Not my place to tell anyone not to drink, but one fact remains, it will never take you to a healthier life, even 1. As for food, Google "eating for good health". Like alcohol, if you went overboard on the sweets, cheese, massively overindulged to go to the gym and be blowing out of your arse after 5 mins, it's what you're eating, not the gym and exercise that's the problem. Many who struggle mentally have horrific diets. Do you? Start there.

14. Relationship with exercise.
You exercise to feel good, be healthy and have longevity. You don't exercise so you can have an extra 2 curries in a week or extra bottle of wine. The latter destroys the ability to do the former well. Choose your hard as they say. A hard 1 hour 3 times a week that leaves you bouncing? Or 4500 calories that tasted great but leave you morbidly obese, using statins and 5 other meds. Exercise and good health destroy ailments. Why? Because your body is fucking a truly amazing tool when used properly.

15. Go for it. There's many on here who'll cheer you on. Me included.

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[Alex Brogan @_alexbrogan]

Most people suck at decision-making.

Let's change that.

Here are 15 of the best decision-making mental models I've found:

[Sage UK @sageuk]

HR’s changing…

We polled 1000+ HR leaders & c-suite execs to uncover how – with revealing results… 👇

https://t.co/04nVyccFpn

#ChangingFaceofHR

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It’s competition time for the next generation of small businesses, with the chance to take it to the capital.

@smallbusinessuk and Sage are partnering to give small businesses their own pop up space on Oxford Street, London.

Go to https://t.co/UvH3B5uGkr enter.

Good luck 🤞