I was at an ABC meeting recently and asked the group what they would like me to speak about and I gave them a choice of Donald Trump or The Barn! All but one of them chose the barn, so, here is the same story for you… My wife Sarah and I are lucky enough …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A busy day on the road where I live is three cars and two horses, to say it is secluded is an understatement so imagine my surprise when driving to visit a client early one morning I saw a pink suitcase abandoned in the hedgerow about a quarter of a mile from my house. On …
Finish with a BANG! We only have 2 weeks of 2019 left so I have a challenge for you all to help you finish the year with a BANG! Please read the blog below and then if you accept the challenge at the end, we can measure the results! I’ve always been interested in people …
I see lots of clients in varying states of mind from ecstatic down to depressed! What I’ve noticed is the happier ones have a similar philosophy and the most popular are the following seven points. Give it a go for a month and see how your mood improves. Do It Now. – You will be …
As a performance psychologist, and someone who talks to business owners on a daily basis, some who are my clients and many more who are not, I’ve heard an incredible number of reasons why businesses are struggling or failing. I know that 99 out of 100 times that a reason‚ really isn’t a reason at all, …
I was at an ABC Network meeting recently and was doing a short presentation on systems & processes. Afterwards the question of leadership came up when one of the members said to me “I hate it when somebody points out what I already know, and they are right because I’m not doing it! I’ve put the system …
