Third of three workshops yesterday and another large room (90 people) in Farnham, Surrey. I was chatting about the power of branding in modern-day consumerism – and suddenly realised I am a walking brand advert: Armani t-shirt; Hugo Boss trousers; Paul Smith underwear; Prada shoes; Oakley watch. I cannot remember where I bought my socks!
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It really does make the world seem a better place. Presenting in Birmingham yesterday, I was addressing the issue of “team building” and explaining that appreciation does more to build morale than money or training. Just a heartfelt “thank you” makes all the difference. As I spoke, an email popped into my in-box from a
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I’m sitting in the lounge of the Thorpe Park hotel, just outside of Leeds, answering emails at 6.30pm, after a workshop day delivering our second quarter’s presentation to over 100 people. For some years now, Leeds has been our most heavily attended venue and the atmosphere in the room today was electric. In some ways,
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A wonderful professional day, yesterday: 1. a 4-hour meeting with an accountant to deconstruct and reconstruct my future cash flow forecasts and my net worth statement. Principally, I have properties for sale in Manchester and Florida and wanted to calculate a sale price for both that would represent an accurate mathematical compromise between losing equity
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You recommended zoning of appointment book. Could you advise further as regards implementation of this? I understand the need to achieve certain financial goals in a day as regards turnover/takings but how is this to be achieved through zoning? Zoning has been about setting aside sessions when you are doing the work you want to
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It’s amazing how quickly they keep coming around – and today was a full crew, with Barbara, Simon, Paul and a welcome visit from Steph. Our focus was new client acquisition – our beloved dentists have a gold medal in procrastination and so I have implemented some of the rules that made me successful as
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It seems so at the moment – there is so much going on. After Tuesday’s visioning exercise, Wednesday was a “head down” day of answering client emails, reading and responding to their weekly progress reports, making some phone calls and generally keeping my task list manageable. A big “tick” on yesterday’s list was also completing
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My business planning day was inspiring. Mike Hutchinson (my coach for the day) began by explaining that when we were standing at the base of a mountain and looking up, it appeared to be a stiff climb – but that when we are standing on the summit, the view will be spectacular. I have been
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Today I am working with an accountant/business coach, spending 8 hours being coached 1:1 on my business vision for the next 10 years. I met him at a recent workshop, which he attended as a guest of one of my dental clients. We connected over lunch, I visited his offices and we discovered a lot
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I’ve been attacked by two silver BMW’s in the last 48 hours. On Thursday a 5 series driven by a French Poodle (read the next issue of my ezine for an explanation) and Friday a 3 series convertible. The poodle incident was at 20mph and so taking avoiding action was easy enough and humurous. Yesterday,
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