Generating Time
Plans are not made to be broken. The best way to make sure your plans do not get put on the backburner is to prepare to deal with interruptions, and work out how to keep focus and on task.... read more
Finding More Time in Your Day
Ask anyone you meet how they are, and there is a pretty good chance they will talk about how busy they are, how there aren’t enough hours in the day, or something along those lines. Whether they are a... read more
Who to Delegate to, Even When You Have No-One
At the time of writing this I was at Starbucks in Houston airport, with the infinite variety of humanity swirling around me. I’d just finished spending time with my new marketing contractor, Trish Lambert. We met via the internet.... read more
Are you creating results or just trying to?
Recently I took part in a four-week challenge put on by the gym I go to. For four weeks I had (with recommendations and guidelines from the trainers) determined what I would do for four weeks to challenge myself... read more
Are you a slave to your To-Do list?
Who’s ‘ruling the roost’ when it comes to your daily workflow? For many of us (me included most days), it’s not our big-picture vision, our strategic plan, our business plan, or the big goals that we’ve set for ourselves.... read more
Do you work in the clouds?
You may have heard the term Cloud Computing (also called ‘Software-as-a-Service’ or ‘Software on Demand’) and it’s a great way to improve your computing processes and save you time and hassle in your business. If you’ve ever used web... read more
Are the Boring Bits of Business Costing You Money?
If you look at Australia’s Top 10 companies you’ll see four banks, two miners, one insurer, one Telco, one supermarket and a hardware chain. Their products aren’t at all glamorous. Australia’s Rich list is the same story – miners,... read more
6,000 Cups of the Smell of Success
Describe your business to us and how you got the idea and put in into reality? My brother Con and I have been business partners for the past 24 years, buying bankrupt food businesses and turning them around or... read more
You don’t need ONE MORE tip to get started.
If you’re at all like me you gather facts like a squirrel gathering nuts. I have been collecting books, blogs to read, friends in social networks that know more than me about how to be good at social networking,... read more
You don’t need ONE MORE tip to get started.
If you’re at all like me you gather facts like a squirrel gathering nuts. I have been collecting books, blogs to read, friends in social networks that know more than me about how to be good at social networking,... read more
One solution for an out-of-control to-do list
Today’s Sydney Morning Herald included this comic strip from the always-hectic Cathy and how she manages her to-do list. I had to giggle because despite both online and offline systems, great programs I still feel totally out of control... read more
Version One is better than Version None – Stop Procrastinating
I wish I could recall who said this to me:- “Version One is Better than Version None”. (Whoever you are – thank you! and all credit to you.) What he (and I remember that it was a ‘he’) said... read more
