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Category Archives: Personal development

How to feel better AND improve your thinking

I’d like to ask you a question: How do you feel right now? The reason I ask, is that it’s possible to massively improve the way you feel, by improving what you focus on. This is because everything you pay attention to influences you, often at a very deep level. For example, one of theContinue Reading

How to unleash your inner superhero

You are extremely resourceful. In fact, your problem solving ability is a little like a superhero’s super power. You just need to know how to use it, which is what this post is all about. Super You You only need to think about some of the huge challenges you have risen to and major problemsContinue Reading

Are you an entrepreneur or have you built yourself a job?

Do you have the mindset of an entrepreneur? If you would like to find out, this post is just for you. It’s important to know which mindset you have, so you can follow the business path best suited to you and what you want to achieve. Business owner does not equal entrepreneur Just for clarity,Continue Reading

The Art of Work

There are artists in every line of business, usually doing a wonderful job and loving it. I was thinking about this earlier today, when I witnessed something that was quite remarkable. An enlightening experience A rear light bulb in my wife’s car had blown, so I went to a local car parts shop to getContinue Reading

Steve Jobs and the power of focus

How many new projects are you working on right now? I ask you this, because one of the fastest ways to massively improve your effectiveness, is to give your full focus to as few projects as possible. Why? When you are a small business owner or consultant, you have a limited number of resources. ByContinue Reading

A few words of encouragement

From time to time, we all need a few words of encouragement. The thing is, people in need of encouragement do not always tell us. On the outside, they may seem fine. Confident and courageous even. However, on the inside, they may really need to hear our words of encouragement. They could be at aContinue Reading

Do the research. Interpret it. Make the decision. Take action!

Here’s a very quick tip, to help you turn your feedback or research, into results. I want to start by asking you a question: What role does research play in your business? I find that many small business owners will make big decisions, without doing any form of structured research. Others will do enormous amountsContinue Reading

How to boost your creativity by making connections

How creative do you think you are? What stops many people fully benefiting from their creativity, is that they don’t think they are creative. They wrongly assume that unless an idea has never been pondered before and is plucked from the sky, it isn’t creative. Yet, when we examine the most creative people in anyContinue Reading

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