Planning 10-12 weeks vacation every year. It’s still the best business decision I ever made. Listening to Dan Sullivan, founder of Strategic Coach, talking about Free, Focus and Buffer Days in July 1993 (Toronto) and, after 2 years of procrastination, taking the plunge in 1996. Sometimes doing crazy stuff (like the trip to Oman in
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Your unique ability is the work that you get paid for and, more importantly, the work you love to do, because you are just brilliant when in that zone. For me that’s coaching, speaking, writing and creating content. For you that might be clinical dentistry or running a business (it’s rarely both). Anyone who knows
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Phew! After last night’s chaos at London’s Euston Station (see my Facebook profile), this morning’s blog is a little later than usual (aided and abetted by an update to my Mac OS operating system that consumed the first 30 minutes of online time this morning – first world problems). So, for those of you who
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This week I’m mostly in The Barrow Bunker, working my way through a substantial list of tasks, projects and research. One of the better habits I have developed in recent years is to book a 3-day quarterly “retreat”, during which I have a chance to read, listen to and watch business development material that expands
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There is a sense of growing frustration as one reads through this #1 bestselling business book, virally recommended in recent months. As a freelancer (and on behalf of my dental entrepreneur clients) I find myself thinking “it’s all right for you Cal – you are an academic and not subject to the distractions and deadlines
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On the recommendation of my coach Rachel Turner (and others) I’m currently reading “Deep Work” by Cal Newport and, even though I’m less than half way through the book, I already know that the author has me thinking deeply, questioning the way I work, opening me to change. I’ll not attempt a synopsis of the
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I’m delighted that this event is going ahead from Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October 2017. Those attending are going to benefit from total immersion in their 2018 personal and business plan – personally coached by me and sharing the experience with similar couples, all of whom share the ownership and work inside independent
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As a committed member of the innovation tribe, I downloaded the beta versions of macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 over the weekend (just in case that doesn’t mean very much to you, they are the next generation of operating systems for Apple Macs and iPhones and will launch to the general public in the
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Today, the sheer unadulterated pleasure of working ON my business with no face to face meetings, no Skype calls and no telephone. A day in The Barrow Bunker. I do love working IN my business because that’s how I fulfil my calling, it’s where I observe the best and worst systems and people, where I
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You can’t do it all by yourself. There’s too much to do nowadays. You have to delegate. Let’s just spend a moment thinking about that. Step 1 Take a sheet of paper. Draw a vertical line down the middle. Left hand column – title – ONLY ME – things that only you can do/must do/should do.
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