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We need to remember that this is our company and that the team are generally employees. This is important for a couple of reasons. Your team are probably loyal and committed but you have to remember they are there for a primary reason, a paycheck! Work needs to be fun and rewarding for them. If … Read moreAre you a Leader or a Slave Master?
I had amazing feedback on yesterday’s post about the compound effect so I thought a “Part 2” was in order. You see – I am practising what I preach. This is the second day in a row that I am writing about compound effect. I hope I get better and better at this. But it’s … Read moreI’m Compounded
This is a powerful lesson. In finance this principle has been the core standard of creating wealth. By reinvesting the returns or interest earned on the primary capital investment the growth of the wealth is compounded as we earn interest on our interest. This is great advice but this isn’t an economics blog so why … Read moreCompound Effect or Affect!
Seem obvious right? Yet so many of us don’t actually learn every single day! Education is not necessarily only what we learn at school or university, We must never stop learning. Every day is wasted if we don’t learn something. Lessons aren’t always a positive outcome either. Remember this entire blog is based on correcting … Read moreYou have to Learn Every Day!
There is an old story about an eagle’s egg that rolled out of it’s nest and landed up in a chicken farm. The egg hatched and the little eagle was groomed and raised as a chicken. All its life it watched the birds in the sky flying and yearned to fly like them too. But … Read moreIf It Walks and Clucks like a Chicken is it a Chicken?
We can learn by example or by warning. By following what others do successfully this could potentially set us on the path to success. Equally, yet polar opposite, we can also learn by warning or being careful in seeing what has happened (if negative) and not doing the same thing. Seems logical right? Yet so … Read moreDo as I Do or Do as I Say?
Benjamin Franklin said “Time is Money” maybe that’s why they put his face on the US$100 Bill. There is a different take on this though. Yesterday I spoke about loving what you do. Today I want to continue that in pointing out what you spend your time doing. We spend so much time on Facebook, … Read moreTime is Literally Money!
When writing this post I wanted to put a picture of William Wallace (Braveheart) up and thought although it ticked the passion box it was more about Freedom than Passion. You see you have to really, really, really love what you do. If you wake up in the morning and go “Oh shit, work….” then … Read moreDo you REALLY love what you do?
I will save you the Google search, cognita incessabiles is Never Stop Learning! Now this seems obvious, right? Yet so many of us do stop learning. It’s become almost clichèd to say “We never stop learning” but I think that this is all it is, a statement! You see learning takes effort. Wrong! Learning happens … Read moreCognita Incessabiles
I have heard so many people say “Well it was average” or “It was just above the average”. Is mediocracy what you really want to aim for? Do you really think that you will get everything you want out of life being average? If you answered yes to any of the above, you should unsubscribe … Read moreIf You want to be Average this is not for You!