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Category: Work/Life Balance
About a week ago I started asking my clients to think about their “Top 6 goals for 2018”. The answers have been enlightening because, without fail, they have been qualitative and not quantitative. Examples: Better health; More relaxation; Time for family adventures; A reduction in clinical days; An easier workload; Decisiveness. In fact, so far
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Watches that beep The fact that I don’t want to own an Apple Watch was verified this weekend by the countless beeps, boings and pings from my adult kids’ Watches as they received various notifications from the outside world and from each other (?). “You’ve got mail.” “You’ve had a message.” “You’ve got an incoming
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Funny how buses come in three’s isn’t it? It’s not an old wives’ tale either – the scientific evidence is that a phenomenon known as “platooning” is present in many forms of mass transport – even elevators – and clever mathematicians design systems that are supposed to alleviate the clumping that takes place. Being the
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Sunday was largely a Bunker Day – back in the world of the freelancer, reading and answering 180 emails and my preparation for the week ahead. After a week of high carbs and plenty of red wine, today it’s back on the Paleo nutrition and abstinence for me – one cheat day a week from
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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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So – last day on the road before a week’s vacation including a cottage holiday in West Wales. Gloucester Independent Dental today and an audience of over 100 at Cheltenham Racecourse will be treated to a very eclectic mix of speakers, including a couple of successful hairdressers, the founder of a digital advertising agency and
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Your strategy is the reason why your business exists. It is what you want to be known as the best for. Your tactics are the methods by which you intend to achieve your strategy. It is how you will do the thing you do. Your plan is the way you will deploy your tactics. It
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My 16-hour stop-over at home was necessary, primarily to avoid the madness of what would have been 11 consecutive days living out of a suitcase. Interesting (at least I think so) that simply by getting back home, turning around a bag full of laundry and enjoying a cheeky glass of pre-dinner red in the kitchen,
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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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