It’s Not About the Bling Either Working with Business Owners, I often find myself discussing the importance of improving processes, creating a strong company culture, and increasing profits. At first glance, it might seem like my focus is on the money that I am primarily focused on the financial aspects of business, yet that couldn’t be further from the truth. While it’s undeniable that there are few problems that can’t be solved by hitting them Read more…
Interesting How Other People View It I am always listening to other business owners, their problems, their challenges and their wins, and I am always interested in what they think. Last week, a friend at networking, Kieran, turned to me after my 60 seconds and said, “You really are the business PT, aren’t you?” I told him when he said it I was going to steel that as I thought it really did capture the Read more…
Understanding Human Behaviour Through the Lens of Pain and Pleasure Human beings are, at our core, creatures of emotion. We navigate our lives propelled by an ancient, deep-rooted drive: to move away from any immediate pain and toward immediate pleasure. The immediate is massively important as we will avoid the pain of exercise as it’s something we will face now, even though it will move us towards potential pain in the future. This simple yet Read more…
The Fifth and final pillar of an extraordinary life is you must seek constant and never-ending improvement, or can I so CANI Another favourite quote of mine on this subject from Jim Rohn is Work harder on yourself than you do on your Job I’m going to say that again work harder on yourself than you do on your job or your business How else you ever supposed to develop into the person capable of Read more…
The Fourth pillar of an extraordinary life is to be bold, courageous and decide to act We all have fear, fear about how we will look if things go wrong, fear of being ridiculed, judged or maligned, we can fear success as people will judge, we fear failure for the same reason, we identify real fears and we imagine fears, and yet if you doing nothing people will judge you, if you try and fail Read more…
The Third Pillar of an Extraordinary Life Nothing worthwhile is easy, that’s one of the reasons your purpose needs to be something bigger than you, it has to be something that will drive you to overcome the inevitable roadblocks and disappointment that life brings our way, your purpose should make you passionate enough about what you are doing that you will develop a massive amount of persistence, I want to tell you that nearly every Read more…
Purpose Last Week I talked about the central pillar to an extraordinary life well the second pillar is all about purpose, about why you believe you are here, about who you want to help and what you want to achieve. It is in the progress towards our goals that we find fulfilment, it is the growth that brings us satisfaction, without a destination, a purpose in life, without a goal for our life to aim Read more…
Mindset Matters I know I have written about this before, I have spoken about it often and I will keep speaking about it until everyone makes it a part of their core beliefs (including me). One of the Pillars of an extraordinary life is a belief shared by all the massively successful people I have ever worked with, and that is that above all else Mindset Matters I deeply believe that without shadow of a Read more…
It’s Crucial for Personal Growth and Effective Leadership In the world of personal development and transformation, one of the most profound insights I’ve come to understand is the understanding of what it is that motivates people to act the way that they do which is linked to the six human needs, not a hierarchy of needs that would exist in some perfect world of linear growth but needs that drive everybody in some way every Read more…
How You Think Defines Your Growth Not How Much You Do I hear a lot of business owners saying they’re busy like it’s a good thing, to the point that it seems what I am hearing is that being busy is what they should be. I promise you that you get what you focus on so if you keep telling yourself and everyone else you are busy you can be 100% sure that you will Read more…