I recently had a week’s leave…..and ended up working every day! I don’t say this to brag. In fact the opposite because I want you to chastise me for being so stupid. I know the value and importance of recovery time after exercise (and I give my brain a lot of exercise) and yet I…
Category: Personal development
There is a Third Path
It hadn’t been a good year. Two of my consultancy clients had been forced to cancel their contracts and a third had had their loan called in by the bank who had appointed a Receiver. Back then I mainly carried out consultancy work for growing businesses most of whom had built up debt. Most of…
Read all about it!
I’ve stopped reading the news and watching news broadcasts during the week. Most of it is negative and depressing. Letting it invade my mind runs the risk of negative, rather than positive, thinking. Anything done repeatedly – good or bad – becomes a habit that is hard to break. Constantly reading or hearing bad news…
Have a Caring Christmas
Today, for me, is the start of my Christmas break. I’m taking a few days off. As usual December has been a busy month but, unusually, there isn’t much that hasn’t been done already. As entrepreneurs we always have one more thing to do; there are never-ending projects and there is always work that can…
It makes for difficult reading
This blog is for entrepreneurial business owners, the sector of the population I share most time with and whose dreams, goals and fears I share. Entrepreneurial businesses are mainly small – less than five staff – but are the lifeblood of the economy (whatever politicians and the media may think). Most of us who run…
When your ‘why’ is strong enough, the ‘how’ will take care of itself.
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…
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…
