Are you Reinventing the wheel with your business? The first five years of my life were in a council flat in the East End of London, the only natural greenery I had seen was the river Thames (It was very dirty). Imagine what was going on in my head when my mum and dad moved […]
About 4 years ago I was challenged to do 22 press ups for 22 days to bring awareness to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for British service men and woman returning from war zones. It moved me to find out that 22 ex-service men and women are committing suicide every day so I decided to
I’ve just had a week in Sorrento in Italy finishing my latest book. Sarah and I were sitting having lunch when this northern gentleman approached our table and said “Excuse me Have you got a Travel Lion?” As he had a really strong northern accent I didn’t understand what he had said, however, Sarah asked
It never ceases to amaze me when I meet someone and they say to me networking doesn’t work. A classic example of this happened last week when an ABC member (let’s call him Charlie) emailed me to say that he wouldn’t be coming to ABC anymore because he hadn’t had a single referral in 2
I’m going to indulge you in a little time travel back to May 1985. My second son Adam had just been born in February, business was booming, new Mercedes 280e in the garage and I was treating myself to an all singing and dancing lawn mower. A Honda with a Briggs and Stratton engine, 51cm
Recently my book STUFF for Business has been selling very well and a lot of happy people that have bought it have signed up to my regular blog with my favourite tips for business and life. Here are seven tips to help you along! Come on don’t be shy, let me know what you think,
In business with your life partner? Married couples in business together have extreme opinions when asked about it. It’s either the best thing that happened to them, or the worst. Very few couples, if any, are indifferent about running a business with their life partner. Married couples have long established and run successful family businesses, one third of
Rushing into December last year and in the run up to Christmas I had several people say to me “I just don’t know where this year has gone!” or “Time must be moving faster than ever!” or “There just aren’t enough hours in the day!” or derivations of these statements relating to time. It got
When I was a young man of 23, my business partner and best mate Jamie and I used to stop off on a Friday night and have a beer in a pub called the Queens Head and as we were enjoying our pint a young ex public school boy used to drop in and have
I love this little metaphor by Portia Nelson… 1) I walk down the street, There is a deep hole in the pavement, I fall in, I am lost…. I am hopeless…. It isn’t my fault, It takes forever to find a way out. 2) I walk down the same street, There is
