Uncategorized
Free Articles
Are you Struggling to get on top of your Finances?
A number of people that I speak to, many approaching retirement age, after years of working hard are still struggling to get on top of their finances... Many have been in full time employment all their working lives who still haven't sorted out a pension or know how they are going to manage financially when they retire... It doesn't sound right that after years of working for a co [...]
January 12, 2023
Create Win-Win Strategic Partnerships To Achieve 10X or 100X Goals
Most people are in a state of competition rather than collaboration. Collaboration is a much higher level than competition. Competition is focused on the self. It’s also very low level thinking, because what you can do on your own is very limited. People who are competing are grinding. They’re more focused on winning than creating real solutions. However, when your thinking become [...]
December 02, 2022
Blind Obedience is a Dangerous Thing
Playing Obedient is common element found in everyday life. From obeying teachers in school, security guards at events, policemen directing traffic, to safety signs. And linking back to my previous email, even an RAF officer on the road, we obey all the time, often blindly. However, blind obedience is a dangerous thing and I would like to illustrate this point with an experiment that was con [...]
December 02, 2022
It is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission…
At the end of my recruitment agency start up workshop presentations, I always meet with customers to see if they would like to make an investment to get started or have any questions about what we have on offer. As I was in the middle of a discussion with one of my customers, this lady received a phone call from a recruitment agency, and so she asked to be excused and disappeared for ten m [...]
December 02, 2022
Benefits of Entrepreneurship are Huge
1. You have Greater Job Security. Only a generation or two ago, going into business for yourself was considered risky, and the safest route was to get a good job in a large firm, perhaps a bank, retail or working for the local council. Now, working for a traditional corporation has become a risky option. Working for yourself has become the new job security. If you’re working for some [...]
March 02, 2020
BREXIT – Deal Or No Deal, Either Way You Lose, Unless…….
BREXIT – Deal Or No Deal, Either Way You Lose, Unless... Just for the record, I am not politically minded in any way, shape or form; that being said, if given the chance, I know I could sort out the Brexit conundrum in a day, but more on how I could do this in a moment or two If you’ve attended one of my workshop presentations, you would have heard me reveal the secret to having [...]
October 08, 2019
Quick Story, Powerful Lesson…
Every four years the Olympics happen, and oftentimes all that separates the best runners or swimmers in the world are 1/100 of a second. Yet, the person who is 1/100 of a second faster gets the gold medal, the plaudits and the lucrative sponsorship deals. It doesn’t matter if you barely lost, you LOST. It’s the same in business. You and five of your competitors might pitch a client, but on [...]
June 13, 2019
How Fame and Fortune Ruined Mike Tyson
Some years ago, while I was attending evening classes studying for my CIPD qualification, I was informed that the new school caretaker was a sparring partner for Mohamed Ali. Now, this guy must have been in his 70s and he look a little frail, and several the students wanted to mess around and do shadow boxing with him, but as he was at work, he wasn’t at all interested. One of the young lads w [...]
February 15, 2019
“We cannot teach people anything; We can only help them discover it within themselves.”
Many years ago, in Thailand there was a temple that was called The Temple of The Golden Buddha. At this temple was a huge golden statue of the Buddha. Word came to this village where the monastery was that an army from a neighbouring country was about to invade. So, they came up with brilliant scheme to cover the golden Buddha with mud and concrete so that it looked like a stone and thus the [...]