22nd September 2009
Once you realize you are ready to delegate to other you are probably going to want to get started quickly. That’s how we work as entrepreneurs, an idea gets in our head and we leap forward.
Typically we rush to bring a new team member on board becaus...
22nd September 2009
With credit lines diminishing and debt rising, how does one go about paying for all the resources to grow?
It’s a common challenge facing many in the entrepreneurial community but it doesn’t have to be the roadblock that keeps you from investing in...
12th August 2009
Create your ideal lifestyle vision first. It's hard to shove your ideal lifestyle into a busy business, but if you create that vision first, you can then build your business to support it.
Vision is the ability to create something wonderful in your ima...
12th August 2009
Learning how to leverage will free you from the burden of feeling constantly overwhelmed and scrambling to succeed.
What is leverage? Leverage is the ability to apply a little bit of effort and get a massive result. Think of a lever - you move the leve...
12th August 2009
John is a highly creative person who loves to do one thing - write. And he makes a really great living at it. But when it comes to running a business and dealing with the operations John would pretty much prefer to get a root canal in the middle of the Sa...
12th August 2009
The last few weeks I've been testing a new high performance technique. Having been trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, I'm always fascinated by how when you give your brain a new directive how it responds.
It all started on a phone call with a cli...
12th August 2009
Have you ever entered into a partnership with someone then found, much to your surprise, that a few months (or years) down the road that the partnership has blown up? Kinda like the moment you discover your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend is no longer t...
12th August 2009
I'm looking around the room at glassy-eyed stares. It is day three of a big marketing event where these entrepreneurs have been learning all kinds of new ideas, opportunities and strategies. I've been brought into help these entrepreneurs prioritize and f...
13th August 2007
My client Anna called me last week, completely frustrated, about an unfolding nightmare with her new client. Anna had recently accepted a new client who had an exciting project. They discussed what specific needs the client had, and Anna determined that i...
13th August 2007
A couple of years ago I was at a leadership conference where one of the keynotes, Suzanne de Passe of Motown Productions, talked about protecting the entrepreneurs’ greatest commodity – our energy. Suzanne’s key comment was “how you spend your ene...
02nd August 2007
What would you do if you knew that you could change your results in an instant? Would you create more money? More fun? More freedom? The ideal relationship?
I'd like to share with you a story about John.
John, a real estate agent, listed 2 propertie...
02nd August 2007
What’s the number one difference between the hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs barely making it and the top 10% who are wealthy, successful and living a life that they love?
Knowing the right opportunities to focus on.
Last week I was talking...
24th July 2007
In the world of small business, it seems there is often a common quest: to find the ideal business partner. Usually this stems from a need to “get rid of” the roles or tasks that we struggle with. Like marketing, finance or sales.
I know when I fir...
24th July 2007
Do you ever feel like you are carrying the weight of a thousand people on your back? Somehow no matter how good you think you are at delegating it still feels like you have a thousand things to do. It’s a feeling many entrepreneurs, managers and busines...
03rd July 2007
What’s the fastest route from where you are today to your ideal financial status? Becoming a “millionaire-thinker”. Now you may think this means you have to be a millionaire – you don’t! The truth is many people don’t aspire to that level of f...
