The start of a New Year is an obvious opportunity for a clean slate, new habits, and fresh ideas. How can you create the mindset of everyday of the year an opportunity? By being clear what’s important to you, or not. What you like or don’t. What you want and what you don’t want. It…
Making quality time to think What happens when you have a structure for this processA personal story…The end of year and the start of a new year is a great opportunity for a clean slate, and making a declaration that will really serve you for 12 months.Don’t waste this opportunity.Make an effort to not just make some time for this, but to…
It’s a nice feeling to have Christmas all wrapped up in good time. And like any break, it also feels good to have as much completed as possible before we shut the business door for a few days. This can cause a stressful time – resulting in what feels like a hard landing, as opposed…
The thing I enjoy most at the end of a conversation with anyone is when they say; ‘You know what Dave, this is what I’m going to do…’ And it’s often nothing to do with anything I’ve said, but the questions I’ve asked, listening carefully for what’s most important to that person. Sometimes…
Do you have a structure, or a discipline that makes you stop? Review the last day, week, month or year. Letting the dust settle, and creating the time and space for new thoughts? If you don’t, you will be missing valuable insights into what could improve your business life. When you honour this process with…
I perform better in all areas when I am in a positive mood. But sometimes switching to a positive mood is easier said than done. Through evolution I am hardwired to focus on the negatives to survive. So I can experience 9 fabulous things in a week and one negative, and guess what I will…
There’s a mis-match between what employers assume is generally most important to employees, and what employees say is most important to them; Employees say; 1. Appreciation 2. Feeling ‘in’ on things 3. Understanding attitude 4. Job security 5. Good wages 6. Interesting work 7. Promotion opportunities 8. Loyalty from management 9. Good working conditions…
You are more likely to be successful if you write your goals and objectives down and create an accountability structure. And what will keep you going when you hit barriers is faith – or just knowing that whatever you’re facing today you will eventually succeed. Think of the analogy in American football when the quarter…
Writing down goals of objectives make you a third more likely to be successful. By writing down your thoughts they are captured and formalised, preventing your mind from wandering off at a tangent. And you can double your success rate again when your progress is shared with an accountability partner. Its when the best result…
I recently reviewed a great book by Daniel Priestley – Key Person of Influence. Useful tips on the stages to staking a claim in, and mastering, your micro-niche… Pitch > Publish > Product > Profile > Partnership But before you do this, I recommend firstly getting really clear on your ‘Why’ (I use your 3…