One year, one Guru, one system
Are you dealing with new and changing information constantly to keep abreast of your industry? Are you trying to replicate somebody else’s system, or various systems, and tweak them until the work for you? If this is you, then you’ve probably hit the information overload wall several times before today. I’m talking about that feeling [...]
Why loyalty is bad for business and how to value your time
How many jobs did you promise to do, and of those, how mane have you actually managed to do so far? If your to-do list has as many promised jobs as ‘real’ jobs, then you’re suffering from a sense of loyalty. Let me explain what I mean, and what I did about this, when it [...]
If shoveling snow won’t help your business, this will…
My neighbour thinks I’m lazy. I’m fine with this: it’s merely an opinion. In fact, he probably thinks a lot worse of me, but if you’re pleasing everybody then you’re doing something wrong. He caught me walking down the path, taking my dog out for his poo-run walk. He was puffing and panting, leaning on [...]
How to slip past your competition during the holidays!
We’re minutes away from the New Year. 2010 is minutes away, and with it come the expectant hopes of every small business owner with dreams, hopes and… a plan. You do have a plan, don’t you? Dreams and hopes are what got you started and on your way to entrepreneurship, but a plan is the [...]
How to make yourself feel motivated and get in the right frame of mind for planning
It’s Christmas. December 25 2009. Once again we reach that time of the year when it seems like a good time to re-organise ourselves and revise our goals and ambitions. It doesn’t really matter much whether you think this is more psychology than circumstance. The bottom line is that it makes sense to do an [...]
E-mail is bad for you. I’ve tested this!
A couple of posts ago I talked about information overload and how to cope with it, and whilst there are various ways to overload on the old ‘info’, this subject would not be complete without giving due credit to the single biggest facilitator of information overload in the digital age: e-mail. Notice that I didn’t [...]
How to cope with Information overload
Sometimes in your business life you may find that you’re overwhelmed with information, particularly if your job requires that you keep up with news and trends in your industry. I’m not talking about feeling overwhelmed with the amount of tasks you may have to complete in a given cycle – that’s a time management issue. [...]
How to keep on top of Web Filing and important tax dates
Web filing, corporate tax, annual returns… they all have one thing in common: they come around and slap you hard every year. And unlike the number 12 to Kings X, these events are never late for a date. When I registered my second company, I did exactly the same thing I did with my first [...]
How to upset your clients before you ever meet them
A couple of days ago I messed up. I was supposed to meet a new client at 2 pm. I realised this two and a half hours later at 4:30 p.m. when the client e-mailed me. And here’s the real kicker: 1. I knew that morning when I woke up that I was meeting my [...]
The biggest most expensive Greyhound in the world
It was 9 AM, Wednesday 19th August 09. I had taken myself to the banks of the river Thames for a bit of relaxation and already the temperature was climbing to a sweltering 25 degrees, on its way to 27 degrees at its peak that day. The crowds had not yet descended to loiter the [...]
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