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 [...]
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My choice to be broke and miserable
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz Video
Finally got my hands on a copy of Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life by Maxwell Maltz the other day (thanks Linda!) and started reading it. Fascinating stuff about how we limit ourselves based on our own self image that’s been around for 40 years+ and yet it’s still not [...]
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 [...]
Are children the best business people?
I just spent half the day visiting old friends and playing with their children. What amazes me is how children are such experts at getting want they want. Which makes me wonder when we lose such a vital skills for business.
Asking better questions
When you say no to an adult they take that to actually mean [...]
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 [...]
World Internet Summit - Auckland 2009
The blog has been postless for a few days because I’ve been off at the World Internet Summit held in Auckland. It was a four day seminar with great speakers on all aspects of internet business and marketing. However I think it held a lot for bricks and mortar business owners as well.
Not least was [...]
Improving your marketing results
I’ve been thinking lately about how complex marketing is and how it’s almost impossible to really master it. So that left me with the question of “How much do you have to get right to see good results?”
I said about 10% in a recent comment and I think that’s a fairly accurate number. Maybe it [...]
7 things entrepreneurs do for fun
Being an entrepreneur is unlike any other profession… I don’t think we can even call it a profession… it’s just a way of life. So I thought I’d share my 7 things I do for fun and hope I’m not alone in this crazy, mixed-up entrepreneurial world I live in.
Number #1 - Read a good [...]
