Yesterday morning Lorraine Shelley, practice manager at Dental 397, picked me up from the lovely Headweir Millhouse hotel to take me over to the practice. It was too early for a hotel breakfast and so, at my request, she kindly ferried me to Starbucks in Marsh Barton (kind of en route) to grab a quick
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Hi Chris I’m reading Deep Work and The E-Myth Revisited again. I’m also realising that I need long periods of uninterrupted time to concentrate without distraction if I want to achieve anything meaningful and to produce work of substance. Currently my work means I can only sit and do this after 10 at night.
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Today will be the last of 6 days in The Barrow Bunker over the Christmas and New Year period – time invested in working ON my business. I began with an Xmas project list of 29 tasks (which grew to 34), ranging from quick fixes around the office and home to the development of a
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Today I’ll be working with a former client who has asked me back in (after a break of some years) to work on a business and personal vision for his future. There is no problem to solve here apart from a very full book, a waiting list for treatment and a bursting calendar of clinical,
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The second major task I planned for yesterday (after the MOAS – cash flow forecast) was to review and finalise my calendar for 2016. Again, the 20th anniversary this year of utilising The Entrepreneurial Time System created by Dan Sullivan at The Strategic Coach (see the links at the end of this post if you
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Today is the first of 5 working days during which I will be predominantly based in my office at home (The Barrow Bunker) and investing time in preparation for 2016. The successful habit here is to book a week in your calendar, every 3 months, where you do not have to pursue sales, productivity and
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Monday morning in The Bunker, after a 6-day week that included three days at The Showcase – and I’m looking at a huge task list on my desktop list and (unusually for me) a pile of paper in the in-tray. I have a healthy wedge of business cards that require follow up, articles bouncing against
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