My life is undergoing a bit of a transformation recently, which has been seven and a half years in the making following my first NLP course. This transformation is a good thing. I am getting healthier, more positive and more productive. I know that I am at the start of the ‘next phase’ of my [...]
Continue Reading →Employment 20 Years From Now
In around twenty years time, I will be 60 and my youngest children will be looking for a career. By then, it’s estimated that the UK population will be around 71 million. That’s around 10 million more people than today. Part of the reason being an ageing population. People over 65 can also legally stay at [...]
Continue Reading →Questions and Answers
Language – in terms of what we say, what people hear and what they respond with – fascinates me. How we ever communicate with each other at all confounds me. Yesterday on the radio I heard a man talk about something he does (which I personally think is irrational) completely in the second person. I [...]
Continue Reading →Behaviour By Association
I met up with a guy I much admire last week to chew the fat. We have both built business and sold – his very successfully by the way. We spent a couple of hours talking and he offered me some advice, which at the time I nodded politely at, and have since been thinking [...]
Continue Reading →Forcing Changes
2011 is around the corner and it’s going to be a big year for me. Firstly, it’s the year I will turn 40. This upcoming milestone is in my head a lot at the moment with thoughts about mortality and life. If I go out and buy an open top sports car next year, you [...]
Continue Reading →A Revolutionary Recession
I can’t say that I’ve been that affected by recessions in my lifetime. I guess this is part luck and part desire to always be in control of my own career, having been self-employed since the age of 19. And, although I have changed career and started a new business during 2010 (which is growing [...]
Continue Reading →Filtering Contacts and Avoiding Sales
Do you ever find yourself dicking around talking to people who are wasting your time? How about reading Tweets and articles that are of no value to you? Yeh, me too. As I look to build up my web marketing consultancy business this year, it’s become apparent that I am in fact starting a new [...]
Continue Reading →The World’s A Stage
I didn’t enjoy school. In fact, I find it hard to muster the enthusiasm to encourage my children to put in the effort now as they go through the same sausage factory called education which tries to teach them not to fail. My stock line is for them to make the most of it. The [...]
Continue Reading →Someone to Inspire Us
Claire, my wife (and business partner in the beauty business), recently did a talk to a few hundred students about beauty as profession. It was a day organised by the local college in Basingstoke, offering industry input to students looking to pursue a career in hair and beauty and other associated careers. A few days [...]
Continue Reading →Good Management
One of my strengths (I see it as a strength) as a small business owner is to hire a manager and let them get on with the job. One of my weaknesses, however, is that too often I believe they are doing all they can and I am often too hands-off.
But, in the past month I’ve realised that neither of these is really that relevant if you have a crap manager in the first place (and yes, that is my fault if I did the hiring).
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