Discovering your purpose is the first step to entrepreneurial success. In a recent blog I gave you a guide to discovering your purpose and as you may have found it’s not easy. In fact, few of us discover it until our late 30s or 40s. But when you have discovered your purpose (your ‘why’ according…
Category: Personal development
Live your life on purpose.
Last week I asked whether you know you purpose. It sounds like an easy question, but in reality it is far from it. And if you haven’t yet found your purpose how do you go about it? Your purpose – or as Simon Sinek calls it, your WHY – is unique to you and every…
Is this the best investment you’ll make?
This week has seemed a bit like the end of the holidays rather than the beginning. The World Cup, Wimbledon and the summer just seemed to end all together. Soon it’ll be the football season. And just like the England team at the World Cup I wrote about last week, all the teams will be…
What does freedom mean to you?
I was asked this question on a recent webinar. So I asked myself: ‘Do I have the power to think, act and say what I want, whenever I want? Do I have the resources I need – primarily time and money – to do what I choose to do each day? Because, to me, that…
New balls please!
There is a science behind building a successful business. A formula. A process. Much like building a bridge, or a car or a house. It starts with planning and preparation, collecting the resources and raw materials required and assembling them in the right order so that they all fit together. In manufacturing it’s called design…
What differentiates successful business owners from the rest?
This weeks Sunday Supplement is shorter than usual because this month I am prioritising writing the content for our next ‘Business in a box’ which launches in March. But last week I took two days out to attend an event and a workshop to advance my learning and knowledge. Not everyone does this which got…
The greatest teacher failure is
If you haven’t yet seen The Last Jedi, I’ll just say that the latest words of wisdom from Yoda are ‘the greatest teacher failure is’. Wise words. And I thought it a timely reminder this New Year’s Eve. It is likely that you set goals to achieve in 2017 and that you realised some and…
Are you sharpening your saw?
Last week I discussed the importance of personal development. This reminded me of something Zig Ziglar said: “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing not the getting; in the trying not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming…
How has it been for you?
What kind of a year has it been for you? It’s nearly over. Has it been good to you and for you? If you look back to December 2016, thinking about a year forward, in all honesty, if you’ve not created what you had hoped for a year ago, why is that? Were your expectations…
Whose life are you living?
Imagine you have a new shiny computer with a super-fast processor, loads of memory and mega-speed broadband. It can do anything. And then you programme it with old, out of date, second hand software. You wouldn’t, would you! Bonkers! And if it happened, you’d clear out the old software and replace it with up to…