It’s important to understand the difference between achievements and habits when you are goal-setting. An achievement is a specific target, usually involving numbers and deadlines: I will hit a sales target of X by Y date; I will launch product/service X by Y date; I will create X video testimonials by Y date. A habit
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – leaders lead people and managers manage systems. You cannot lead systems, you can only manage them. You cannot manage people, you can only lead them. So here’s a thing – why do we keep using the term “owner-manager” to describe those folks who run their
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Every Friday morning my active coaching clients receive an email asking them to visit a landing page and complete their Extreme Business Weekly Tracker. They answer the questions, press “SEND” and I get the email directly (they have a copy as well). I use the same system to report to my own coach. The weekly
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I’m nervous this morning and wanted to share with you why that is. I’ll be spending the majority of the day working ON my business and not IN my business. The concept isn’t new, I first discovered Michael Gerber and The E-Myth Revisited almost 20 years ago; Strategic Coach and the “Buffer Day” back in
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I’m looking for a final 4 people (or 2 couples) to attend this total immersion in coaching. We now have dentists joining us from the UK, South Africa and Sweden, travelling in especially to attend. The retreat is open to anybody who owns an existing dental business whether NHS, mixed, private or specialist from single
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The news today that Asana, the project and task management software company, have raised $75m in funding from Al Gore’s London-based asset management company Generation Investment Management is a sign, if it were needed, that we all have a lot to do and need more sophisticated ways of keeping track. The remote team at Coach
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Do you love your work? I’ve been coached by experts over the years and they have taught me to aim at spending 80% of my professional time doing the work I love to do and 20% leading and managing the support team who do everything else. I love 80% of my Bunker Days (like yesterday,
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There are two distinct versions of overwhelm. Overwhelm from above Taking too many things on. Being attracted by Bright Shiny Objects (BSOs). New applications and software, new technology, new courses, new equipment, new techniques, new philosophies, new gurus (!). You need to ask two serious questions before embracing the “new”: is this going to distract
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If you are running a three-chair practice with £500,000 in sales and 10 people, you can “wing it” 80% of the time and hold semi-formal meetings to create structures and protocols 20% of the time. If you are running a 6-chair practice with £2m in sales and 20 people, you can “wing it” it 20%
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There comes a time in the life of every Dental Principal when you have to admit that you simply cannot do everything any more. Not only does that extend to running the business but also to delivering the dentistry. We all start our careers as novices and evolve through experience and post-graduate education to become
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