This is an island in South-East Asia. I sometimes hang out here months at a time. More importantly, believe it or not, it is the single biggest secret to rapid business success. And I can prove it! More on that shortly… Contained in what follows is the secret to seriously winning the game of business, … Read more
Three useful strategies that make seeing and being in the world that little bit easier. These ideas were not big enough for an episode all of their own, but are nonetheless useful. Enjoy!
Have you ever been dead wrong about something? Have you been blinded to something that could have been good for you by the way you filter the world. In this episode, we talk about how I was dead wrong about a book that I read a long time ago. How one of the lessons from … Read more
Many of us laugh at those people who fear flying. I have a mate Steve who cannot get on a plane without being mostly drunk for fear of flying. A flaw that caused him and his now-wife a stint in Miami’s prison system. A fortune in fines and as far as I am aware of … Read more
No matter what the multi-taskers tell you, great work comes through focus. The more distractions we have the less the quantity and often the quality of the work we get done. Over the years people have developed systems for ensuring we can put the required focus into the task at hand. To me, there are … Read more
These curios objects are mummy hooks. They are what the Egyptians used to scrape the brains out of corpses before mummification. Interestingly the Egyptians did not think the brain was much use thinking the heart was the thinking centre of a human. So they scooped the brains out and threw them away. Smart enough to … Read more
Ok, it is time for another sales formula, I mean who doesn’t love a good sales formula. Am I right 🙂 I’ve mentioned before my go-to sales formula is PAS (Problem Amplify Solve), it’s quick and easy and has a load of great psychology to move a sale forward. Good, now we have gotten that … Read more
I want you to take a good long look at both. Because contained in these images is the key to not only long term business success, but also protecting your business from short term business calamities. What do you notice? Well if you look you will notice that the Parthenon which has stood for thousands … Read more
In any transaction normally one side takes most of the risk. Think about that for a second. Whenever we are asking someone to do something or buy something one side has to take more risk than the other. The risk can come in time, money, energy, emotional cost, or any of a myriad different ways. … Read more
Yeh, Yeh, everyone tells you that you should have a vision. Hell, even the Bible tells us… Without a vision, the people perish. That is all well and good, but for too many of us a vision is an abstraction an idea put forth by motivational speakers that sounds good in theory, but for many, … Read more