Your plans for 2026

The office cleaned and polished. The intention, to create an impeccable environment to invite people in and talk about their plans for 2026. Then make a declaration of what’s most important for the first three months – by Easter I will..? Use the carpenter analogy – measure twice, cut once. Then fire the gun, and…

Systematising

Have set routines for how you do business and you will have more efficiency, greater consistency, and less cock ups. And therefore be more profitable. And the bonus will be your headspace will be freed up for creativity and developing the business. You probably can’t cover every eventuality, but you can have a set process…

Systematisation

The more set routines you have for how you do business, the more consistency, the greater the efficiency, and the fewer cock ups. And the bonus, your headspace is freed up for creativity and developing the business. You probably won’t have a set process for every eventuality, but 80%+ of the time it wants to…

Take a swing

Unlike other sports reacting to a ball, the golf ball just sits there at your feet. Waiting for you to initiate movement – let’s see what you’ve got, take a swing. Some things in life are the same, in that nothing will happen without action from you. Like that conversation you need to have but…

Abracadabra

Easter, the start of Quarter 2, 2025, to the end of July, or the school holidays. The opportunity for a reset. Stop the car, handbrake on, into neutral, ignition off, the speedometer at 0. Time to breathe… and think. What’s going on for me right now? What’s most important, my priority, one thing (there’s no…

Pace of accomplishment

Are you present to how much progress you are making? Your rate of progress can range from drift, (no progress) to glacial, I know I’m progressing although I can’t see it day to day, to purposeful momentum, to velocity, to lightning speed (you see your child running on to the road). We rarely have structures…

Being complete

Are you complete? You’ll know if you’re not. There will be something niggling on your mind, something that keeps you awake at night. Or an uncomfortable sensation in the body. We will never get everything done, complete, as there will always be something else. But what you can do is have everything handled. An outstanding…

Strong structures

A purposeful change to the routine last week. Wake up > breakfast > ski > lunch > more ski > the bar > dinner > sleep > repeat. Non-stop and pretty exhausting, I felt I really needed a holiday when I came back. But on Monday, without thinking about it, I got straight back into…

Colour in the way

If you get your business, or life, plan down in black and white you’ll be clear on why you’re doing what you do. You can create a clear vision, or destination. And you can also list the phases, steps, or stages for the route. That’s all good because it will help keep you focused and…