In the classic book “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People” Stephen R. Covey lays down the groundwork for becoming a highly effective person. Funny how that works since it’s right there in the title. But let’s face it… some of us don’t really want to be effective!
There’s so much pressure of us from society [...]
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The 7 habits of highly ineffective people
Improve productivity 145.749% in just a few days
Ok so maybe I can’t quite measure my productivity that accurately but I’m recently discovered a highly effective yet totally counter intuitive way to improve productivity. Over the current week I’ve gotten so much more done and actually ticked about twice as many things off my todo list as normal. I’m even about to tick [...]
Why New Year’s resolutions always fail
I think we’ve all had the experience of making New Year’s resolutions only to break them in just a few short weeks. So why does this happen? And how can we see our goals through to completion?
Personally I don’t make New Year’s resolutions due to the stigma of having them fail. Instead I set goals [...]
My choice to be broke and miserable
For the last few years I chose to be broke and miserable. After all… isn’t that what struggling entrepreneurs are meant to be? At least the broke part with a sprinkling of overworked and exhausted.
The truth is success is not as easy as everyone makes out. Well - to be accurate - I would say [...]
My crippling business disease
Many of you don’t know that I actually suffer from a crippling disease that affects my business rather dramatically. Without realizing it my symptoms can strike without warning and I end up getting absolutely nothing done. I believe this disease strikes many business owners but not many are willing to admit it.
I’m referring to the [...]
Chris Howard - Breakthrough to Success Review
I attended Chris Howard’s Breakthrough to Success event in Auckland, NZ on the 4 - 6th September 2009. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I went in but was curious to learn more about Neural Linguistic Programming (NLP) and was offered free tickets so thought what the heck. I realised that since it was [...]
Business success: Take action and follow through
Most people don’t realise just how important their mind is when it comes to business success. It’s shocking really and I speak from experience as I’ve been a prisoner of my own mind on many occasions. If you want to take action and follow through… as strange as it sounds you probably have to fight [...]
Unique marketing ideas don’t work…
Last night I was up until 2:41am and I realised something… unique marketing ideas don’t work. Well not as well as we’d like them to work anyway. This was brought on by rereading Seth Godin’s classic Purple Cow.
Seth was talking about how marketing is not an afterthought… but an integral part of product design. Now [...]
The secret of success
Are you searching for the secret of success? Well I have great news for you… the secret does exist! And some even better news is it’s not even a secret anymore.
If you want to find out how to be successful at something… chances are there’s someone out there who has already done it. And in [...]
Increase your sales in just 12 hours
Both time and money are constantly scarce for business owners. I’ve been in business long enough to know this firsthand. But it’s a bit of a paradox… if you don’t commit time to marketing you won’t have more sales/money.
I’ve been struggling with this problem ever since my first client. What are the critical actions that [...]
