Maybe it’s the time of year. A warm sunny Easter. Not long after I sent you my email about consciousness I received the following email from Christian Simpson whose daily blog I follow: Nature reveals great truths – great truths unseen by the majority. Her laws, universal and unwavering, laws which apply to every part of our lives whether…
Anything at all that matters in life only does so as a consequence of its impact on our conscious mind
Have you ever wondered why relatively few entrepreneurial businesses achieve super success? It’s about one in twenty. Not very many. This should be surprising. Napoleon Hill said “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. There is no shortage of books, articles, websites and research about what makes a successful business…
You just can’t get good staff any more.
‘Really?’ I said. ‘It can’t be that hard’. ‘It’s almost impossible’ he replied. ‘There are so few people on the market and none of them are any good’. It wasn’t a conversation I wanted to continue with. After a couple more questions I said: ‘Thank-you for your time, but on balance I don’t think we…
I don’t think I’m cut out to be rich
This week I attended a Masterclass. Amongst the discussion was an exploration of how rich people think. Of course they aren’t called rich people – that would be crass. They are called affluent, high net worth or high value, but whatever they are called they have one thing in common – a lot of money.…
Making Tax Digital has arrived
Making Tax Digital has arrived. From now on, most VAT-registered companies with a turnover above £85,000 will need to keep digital records and submit their VAT returns in a new way. For these businesses, the old system won’t work anymore. HMRC has been busy updating its guidance with the publication of ‘The future of tax…
The time I lost control
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…
Accountants take the role of bank managers for small businesses
If you were in business in the 80s or 90s and opened an account at a high street bank it almost certainly came with a couple of add-ons – a relationship manager and an overdraft. Back then there were about 30,000 business bank managers and virtually every business that needed working capital had an overdraft…
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…
The results so far
In a recent blog I explained why your website is your most important marketing asset. At the time my site ranked very badly in Google for the keywords someone would use to search for an accountant in Chester. So with the help of Will Robinson (who gave my website a thorough MOT) I started a exercise to improve my…
Is your password on the dark web?
No of course not. How could it be? Well if you use the same password repeatedly with your email address it is quite likely that it is out there and you don’t know it. Mine was. 551,509,767 real world passwords have been exposed in data breaches. This exposure makes them unsuitable for ongoing use as they’re…
