Accepting Failure
You will suck at it. No-one is born a master at anything. Hell, humans are the most useless of all creatures at birth. We crawl before we walk, mumble before we speak and often crash…
You will suck at it. No-one is born a master at anything. Hell, humans are the most useless of all creatures at birth. We crawl before we walk, mumble before we speak and often crash…
Most struggle with it. Receiving feedback is challenging. How do you not take it personally? Detachment. As a business, detaching yourself from the emotion of the words and focusing on the outcome in service of…
I have stopped reading books. Let me clarify, I have stopped reading books that I am unlikely to do anything with. You know, interesting but not very useful at the time. Now, I seek out…
Runners speed up when the finish line is in sight. The same energy boost occurs when you are close to completing a goal. The last push even when you may be exhausted. Psychological? Maybe. Effective?…
There is always a reason to not take action and that in itself is the action. Marcus AureliusĀ saidĀ “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Fear is the biggest…
I was in my happy place on the weekend, the garage. Tools were out and I was working on a project I had been planning for a couple of years and finally got around to…
You must let them do it, even if it is terrible in the beginning. There are three distinct phases I have gone though as I have taught my kids how to drive. The first two…
Your idea is worthless. It is not a million dollar idea, in fact you will not make a decent living from it. At least not until you learn how to execute, and execution is not…
You will not get more time, make better choices.
If you are doing this to others you are are doing it to yourself too. One of my pet hates is people not respecting time. Not bothered by a few minutes or the occasional bump,…
2mm was all it took. On the weekend I went to mow our lawns as I often do and for some reason the mower would not start. Only the week before I had replaced the…
Passion was on full display. For my birthday my wife surprised me with a walking foodie tour. This was not a restaurant crawl along the high street but a producers tour through an industrial area….
It is easy to ignore this when you are busy growing a business but at some point it comes back to bite. When reviewing systems and processes I look for the desired outcome first, then…
Doing everything except the one thing that counts the most. Tweaking the product, fixing your website, posting on social media, doom scrolling on social media, designing a brochure. There is so much to do to…
It is both beautiful and horrific at the same time. From someone who has had the joy of three children learning to play instruments I can talk first hand as to the pain and pleasure…
“You are freaking me out!” I like to get things done fast. From idea to execution often begins on the same day. The rate of change and adaptation can be significant. As a change agent…
There is plenty of both… Time and money. Whatever you have you choose to either use it or abuse it. Why do something now that can wait until tomorrow. Focus on the things that will…
Autopilot is another way to describe habits. Getting up at a certain time, putting your shoes on a certain way, driving the same route to work. We form these through our lives as a way…
Every two weeks or so one of my daughters gives her room a good clean. Puts everything in its place again and it drive me insane. Not the cleaning part, that I applaud. The 13…
The thing I love to do as part of my work more than anything else is to simplify complexity. If I can reduce the clutter for myself it allows me to better communicate it to…