Working with our first group of Breathe Business Club clients in Edinburgh yesterday, we challenged them to use their imagination – and describe what their net asset value and business would look like “when it was complete”. An interesting observation was that the scope of the client’s imagination increased in direct proportion to the amount
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Monday morning. Alarm call at 3.00am. Depart Falmouth 3.45am and drive to Exeter airport for 7.00am flight to Edinburgh. Arrive airport at 5.30am.  To be told that the flight is delayed until 11.45am this morning (“due to a technical fault”) Great. Back to reality — and the inefficiencies of British local airlines. Sat in the departure lounge
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I’ve been involved in coaching for over 13 years now – and my New Year in-box is usually littered this week with felicitations from other coaches, confirming that I’m the perfect version of me and that 2008 will somehow be different from all of it’s predecessors if I choose. Alongside those annual mantras of hope
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I’m thinking of registering a couple of new domain names: www.pillar2post.com – would be where you can go to report organisations that just pass you from “pillar to post” when you are trying to get some service. My 2007 favourites are HSBC Bank and Air South West. www.face2face.com would be where you can record examples
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After Christmas in Falmouth I’ll be driving North today to see my kids for a few days – my 15-year old daughter Rachel has a birthday today and so I plan to join her for dinner this evening. I’ll be heading up country in my new and beautiful black BMW M3 – which arrived on Christmas Eve. An
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I’m working as part of a project team with Elmsleigh House Dental at the moment, re-branding their corporate image and literature and recreating their web site. We have banned the principal, my good friend Tim Thackrah, from the project – the last thing we need is his input (!) and he has been intelligent enough
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Yesterday’s visit to Blueapple in Northern Ireland was an adventure into a part of the world I had never visited – and a delight to meet with James and Sonya Hamill and see their award-winning achievements. After almost 10Â hours of conversation – 4 hours of which was in their car on the way to and
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A couple of weeks ago I saw Blue Apple Dental from Noerthern Ireland pick up the “UK best practice” award at the Dentistry dinner. Here I am at Manchester Airport, waiting for my early Belfast flight and then a 90-minute drive to Fermanagh to see the practice for myself and spend the day with James Hamill
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Friday’s practice visit with the team at Bow Lane Dental Group was an enormously enjoyable experience, working on their marketing plans (elevator speech for referral business card and lots of work on UAP’s) and holding personal progress interviews with some of the team members. We had some spare time in the afternoon and I took
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Newbury last night – and a pre-dinner talk for members of the Independent Practitioners Group in a local Spanish restaurant. My speakers fee was donated to Bridge2Aid and so I felt as if I was doing some good as I waxed lyrical to a respectful group of senior dentists about how they had better shape
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