Friday morning at the Hilton Gatwick and I’ll shortly be catching the Express into Central London for my last client meeting of the week with the simply delightful Imran Sayed and Dahlia Sunba, owners of Chelsea and Fulham Dentist. If I may say so, they are the archetype young married dental couple who are simultaneously
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So – last day on the road before a week’s vacation including a cottage holiday in West Wales. Gloucester Independent Dental today and an audience of over 100 at Cheltenham Racecourse will be treated to a very eclectic mix of speakers, including a couple of successful hairdressers, the founder of a digital advertising agency and
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My 16-hour stop-over at home was necessary, primarily to avoid the madness of what would have been 11 consecutive days living out of a suitcase. Interesting (at least I think so) that simply by getting back home, turning around a bag full of laundry and enjoying a cheeky glass of pre-dinner red in the kitchen,
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After 31 days of ColdTurkeyTober I can report an 8lb weight loss, 202 km of running completed and a general feeling of well-being that manifested itself in last Saturday’s Beachy Head Marathon – a run I enjoyed more than many in recent history. Looking back, I reached 87% of my target on nutrition and 81%
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So first hand eyes on the ground intel reports that attendance at a trade event is down, but certain events – like your practice plan talk – are very popular. How do you interpret this in the context of how the profession is changing? I remember a few years ago you predicted that in the
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Yesterday the alarm was at 05:00 and after composing my blog I set off on a 10k run, blown along by the remnants of Ophelia past Newcastle Racecourse to Gosforth and back. Followed by a full day delivering the 3rd Practice Plan Workshop Tour with Sheila Scott. As an aside…….. 17 practices is attendance. Here
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Setting 90-day goals has been at the centre of the personal and professional development work I do with clients ever since I first read “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” back in 1989. Today’s post is short and sweet, simply introducing you to updated versions of an old favourite. You can download here personal
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There’s something about running your own small business. To quote my friend and client Dapo Olotu, founder of Dental 397 in Exeter: finding the marriage between drive and love We love our family and friends, our team and patients – most of the time. We are driven by the responsibilities of our business. Driven: to
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Of one thing we can be sure. In 5 years from now, your business will be indescribably different from the way it is today. That’s what technology has created – a pace of change more rapid than at any time in human history. You and I are not particularly well-suited to that. Neither are your
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My recent wet weekend at Kendal Calling (music, beer, mud) may have been washed out (along with a number of other British music festivals) but it was a timely reminder of just how tribal we still are – and how that impacts the way we promote our businesses. On Saturday evening I watched and listened
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