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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Today Edinburgh in the morning, Glasgow in the afternoon and home late tonight. Tomorrow a Bunker Day and, as well as some client calls, a huge effort to clear my task list before close of play. This weekend we reach the half-way point in the calendar year. I’m off to Greece early Saturday for our
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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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Sometimes running your own business requires a sacrifice of time. For me the sacrifice this Bank Holiday weekend was to work for 4 hours each day in The Bunker – Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning just catching up on meetings that have taken place over the last 2 weeks and generally preparing myself for the
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When you are recruiting team members, hiring suppliers or considering a business partnership, think about these characteristics: DRIVEN – they have a point to prove, a quest; LEADER – they know how to create environments in which people around them become self-motivated; COMMUNICATOR – they are articulate; GET STUFF DONE – they just do. Apply
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I’ve often described Bank Holiday weekends as “freelancer catch-up time” and I wonder how many of you could be found during the last 4 days in your home office or with your head in admin and numbers? For me that was yesterday and a Bunker session that began around 08:00 and, apart from a dog
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I have a tendency to “faff about” before starting really big project work. I can find so many excuses and distractions before I finally sit down and concentrate. Put the kettle on, empty the tumble-dryer, put the bins out, quickly check my social media to see if anybody said or did anything, scan my emails,
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It took a significant accumulation of social drinking in the months (yes, months) up to Christmas and New Year to convince me that Dry January was a good idea. It took a health-conscious wife to persuade me to recommence Paleo nutrition on 14th January, after over a year of lapsing back into far too much
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I have over 100 Principals and managers who are invited to write a weekly progress report – The Extreme Weekly Tracker – as a catharsis for themselves at the end of each week and as a way of keeping me posted and asking questions. This is extremely valuable on many levels, one of which is
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Somewhat of a shock to the system this morning as my alarm call is 04:20 so that I can catch an early train down to London. Today I’m meeting with my business coach Rachel Turner (RT) and joined by Rachel Barrow for the full day and Phillippa Goodwin on video-link at various points in the
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