An interesting thing happened to me while I was on holiday before the lockdown that reminded me about the importance and power of branding! This is often something that is under valued by small business owners. Last year I had some sloppy tee shirts made and supplied by my favourite branded workwear company for me …
Our brains are incredibly complex. We can sift through billions of bits of data at any given time. And somehow, so we don’t short circuit, we have to organise that information. The Reticular Activating System helps with that. The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a bundle of nerves at our brainstem that filters out unnecessary …
We all know how to speak and communicate to each other, although the results of our communication are not always what we intended! The negative self talk we use to ourselves, our internal voice and language patterns are so important to the results we get in life. Below are four things not to say to …
Two years ago on my wife Sarah’s birthday as a special treat we went to Iceland (Not the food chain) to celebrate, we both came back with a much deeper understanding of the word cold! We had some excellent excursions planned to see the Northern Lights (aurora borealis), the famous golden circle, acres of ice …
Work harder when you’re busy, why would you do that? Just recently I was invited to an event called F##KUP Friday at Dragon Co-Working in Rochester. This is intended to be a fun filled night with 3 different speakers sharing their experience in growing their own businesses. I love any type of event that brings …
Stripes in my lawn! I was cutting my lawn recently and I noticed that the stripes that I had worked so hard to keep straight had a bend in them! As I was going up and down the lawn focusing all of my efforts into making sure that the front wheel of my mower was …
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Last Friday I was invited to do a business surgery at a local co-working group. What a fantastic opportunity for me to spend some time with these enthusiastic business owners and answer some of their questions about business and to hopefully help them on their journey to success. (Whatever that might look like for each …
Just recently I was asked to write a networking article for a National Magazine about networking and here is the result that you might find useful if you, like me, are a serial networker! I was at the ABC Big Breakfast network meeting back in January and a business coach came up to me and …
I’m getting asked more and more by various businesses to help build the leadership skills of them and their teams. Lots of companies tend to underestimate the importance of great leadership training, in fact one business owner said to me “It’s my business, I pay the wages so they should all do what I tell …
Are you planting Bananas & expecting to pick Cucumbers? In my experience life is all about cause and effect, do you remember learning at school that every action has an equal and opposite reaction? Call it what you like, cause and effect, sow and reap, action & reaction one thing is for sure we are …
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