At a recent networking event my friend, Emma, confessed that she’s love to write more stuff for her website but just doesn’t seem to have the time to sit and make it happen. Sound familiar? I know from my own research that Emma isn’t alone, I sometimes feel the same way too and so do […]
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On Tuesday I went to a meeting organised by a friend of mine, Julia Canham, who is a business coach. At that meeting I reaffirmed some of the things I’ve had in mind to get on with but the most important thing it brought to mind was to put more into focusing what I want
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I recently went to a networking event and the guest speaker was a woman named Anna Mason who is a specialist in health and productivity. She was speaking on a subject that’s very important to me: health and fitness. Anna presented loads of great tips on how people in business can be healthier so I
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I know I didn’t write this so thanks to Glenn Fisher for letting me share this excellent lesson in customer service: The train manager apologises for the coach being cold but gives no indication of a possible solution. Then the audacity kicks in… In his best QVC voice, he goes on to say that, despite
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Want to improve your concentration with no real extra work? Well, read on. According to a recent study more than 60% of the UK population is between 1% and 5% dehydrated at any one time. Much of this is caused by the caffeine in drinks like tea, coffee and many soft drinks. The problem with
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One Sunday, a few years back, I made a promise, it went like this: On my honour I promise that I will do my best, to do my duty to God and to the queen, to help other people and to keep the Scout Law. Yes, I became a Scout. Well, a Scout leader, to
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The more I think about what I’m doing to develop my fledgling business, the more I begin to realise that collaborative projects are increasingly worth pursuing. I’ve written about business collaboration before at /how-to-partner-up-for-increased-chances-of-success-and-profit/ but I wanted to share a couple of very recent projects. This morning I went to a networking group with several
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Most of us have things in our lives that we’d like to change. But without a commitment to make change happen and then determined effort to make it happen, you’re going nowhere and nothing will improve. So here’s a few thoughts on how you might be able to make some changes in your life without having to
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Did you know that going on holiday can be good for your business. Here’s a quick case on how to take advantage of the down-time.
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This great real-life lesson on “How to focus on your customers” was contributed by my good friend Paul Kaerger: “My father-in-law had an issue with his van recently and it had to be recovered to the garage for some work. It took over five hours to get the insurance company and the recovery company to
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