Updated 21/04/2021 Fail to plan, then plan to fail. If you don’t know what you are going to do each day, then you will waste hours drifting from one task to another, with no relation to your long term goals. If you aren’t working towards your long term goals every day, then you aren’t going…
Updated 14/04/2021 Train people well enough that they can leave. Treat them well enough, so they don’t want to – Richard Branson You can’t do everything yourself Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.” The idea of doing everything yourself is not the message of the quote I…
Updated 07/04/2021 True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united – Wilhelm von Humboldt An obvious immediate benefit of exercise is that it helps to look after your health. If you are healthy, then you won’t have as much downtime through illness. If you are…
Updated 24/03/2021 The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time – Abraham Lincoln Fighting Fires Modern life calls on our time in more ways than ever before. Ten years ago, the first iPhone was just a year old. Fifteen years ago, there was no Facebook, Twitter or Instagram….
Updated 17/03/2021 Meetings Have you ever been in a meeting where most of the participants don’t participate? Do many of your meetings seem like an excuse for coffee and croissants? Executives are estimated to spend an average of 23 hours a week in meetings. That is over half a working week. Meetings are not working….
Updated 10/03/2021 Get the Balance Right Taking one day at a time has many advantages in getting things done. There is a danger though of thinking too short term. If you only think of the next day then, there is a good chance work will be missed, not tackled in the best way and not…
Updated 31/03/2021 When you consider all the decisions you must make as an entrepreneur, especially in a start-up, it is mind-blowing. Some decisions are one-offs that you need to answer, but the majority of decisions related to your business will be about the day to day running. These decisions will be made over and over,…
Updated 03/03/2021 Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through – Anthony Bourdain How long will it take? One of the most common questions I receive that I always try to avoid answering (generally, I flat-out refuse) is, “How long will it take?”. It may seem like…
Updated 24/02/2021 How many times have you said to yourself that you haven’t got the time? “I haven’t even had two minutes to get that done.” Have you been trying to arrange that meeting for weeks, but keep having to cancel because something has come up? Time Management’s Fatal Flaw Time management is the discipline…
Updated 17/02/2021 With another weekend gone, many of us will have hit the motorway for a drive out somewhere. We all know the types of drivers that inhabit the tarmac roads that facilitate our journeys. We can draw parallels with the many different types of business owners and the way that they drive their business…