Monday morning. The start of another week. Please take a moment to think and write down your answer to this question: “What would be the three things I can do this week, that would have the biggest IMPACT on my business and/or my life?” Write them down. Display prominently. Organise a week in which you
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I received a WhatsApp message from a long-term friend Colin Lawson yesterday – he and I used to work together in financial services many years ago. Colin had been having a clear out and found a copy of my goals for 1997. A document printed by me on 22nd January 1997 (it was a Wednesday)
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The Extreme Business Academy is now 6 months old and we have a membership approaching 200 people (some from overseas) who are enjoying the monthly content and extended courses. The Academy is being used by owners and managers to improve their skills and as a team training resource, with the video tutorials and interviews
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My Facebook “friends” will know that today is day 8 of a 52-day detox. I’m focusing on nutrition (Paleo – because I know how to do that and enjoy it), on sleep (having read Matthew Walker’s “Why we sleep” during the summer) and on exercise via the WattBike (whilst my Achilles tendinopathy prevents me from
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Over the last couple of years I’ve been working with my coaching and workshop clients on the quality of their treatment plan presentations. Much has been written here and in my newsletter, comparing most Tx plans to a conveyancing document for a house purchase, rather than the photos of the house in the estate agents
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When my kids were little (a.k.a. the 90’s) we would frequently take the last 2 weeks of August as a family holiday, so that the first Monday in September would be the “back to work” day. I well remember how often that Sunday night’s sleep would be broken by a mind active with anticipation and
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Our September newsletter – published on Sunday morning – features a long-form article on the next (final) 121 days of 2019. It’s September and the summer is over for most of us – kids back to school, us back to work and the nights beginning to draw in (as a member of the 05:00am Club,
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First morning back in the 05:00 am Club after an astonishing Sunday watching simultaneous tennis and cricket. Back to my early-morning weekday ritual. Complete my hand-written diary of yesterday’s events; Fire up the Macbook Pro; Check overnight social media activity; Quick glance at overnight email traffic; Open Full Focus Planner and complete calendar activity for
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To repeat – this weekend we celebrate “half-time” on the year 2019. Monday kicks off the second half of this year’s game/contest/quest (call it what you will). It is important over the next week to take some time out to review your answers to the questions we ask our coaching clients every Friday morning in
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Starting in 1996 (and inspired then and now by the philosophy of Dan Sullivan at Strategic Coach in Toronto), I decided that in August every year I would buy myself a Sasco Wall Planner and spend a day allocating my time for the following year: Free Days – days of rest, vacation and adventure; Buffer
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