Category: Book Reviews
How to Build a Prosperous Business
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We all want a prosperous business. A business that pays the bills, and leaves something extra for us to enjoy life. While some professions trade in ‘hard goods’ that are needed, like a website update, coaches trade in things that no one needs. If you didn’t get coaching today, you’d keep doing what you’ve always
How to Make Your Communication Compelling and Get Your Prospects to Take Action
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We are all selling our ideas to others, all the time. In meetings, whether formal or informal, we are trying to get support for our plans and dreams, and at times, the stakes are monumentally high. It’s on this note that The Compelling Communicator starts. If you don’t believe that, then stop reading here. If
The Old Business Profit Equation Is Broken, Take Profit First
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When you start a business, you dream of one that lets you live the life you want to live. You joke and say it’s sitting on the beach drinking adult beverages, but that’s not what most people are striving for. Knowing that you can pay your bills, live comfortable and take the vacations you want
How The Story Of A Pencil Will Make You Think Hard About Your Place
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What does a pencil mean to you? Maybe you don’t use a pencil, so let’s make it a pen or your preferred writing instrument. As I look around my desk I see 2 pens, and a few pencils plus a permanent marker. If I empty my pockets I find another pen and if I look
Business change, make sure you have a plan to pivot effectively
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Most of us have heard that people won’t be working one job for their whole life. In fact if you’ve been doing the same thing for more than 2 – 5 years employers are starting to wonder what’s wrong with you. Where a 180 in a career focus was once seen as a black mark
What if there was a way to 4X your results this year?
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Most people say they want to be more productive. I get it, you want to get more done. The problem is that you don’t want to get some random ‘more’ done. What you really want is to get more of the right stuff done. For that reason I don’t say I want to get more
How much mess do you embrace in business? Should you be embracing a more Messy business?
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Is it possible to take the ideas in books like Deep Work (my review) too far? Can you lock yourself away to focus on the work at hand and miss out on your best creativity? This is the central thesis of Messy by Tim Harford. The argument of this book is that we often succumb
Don’t let email overwhelm you, Unsubscribe
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Oh email how we hate it. We can spend an entire day in the office pushing email and feel like we did nothing of value. For most of us that sentiment is true. We did almost nothing of value with our email time. This state is a place we all exist in at some point.
When work is hard, should you quit or keep going?
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I’ve been at this coaching thing for about one full year. Yes I’ve written books before. Yes I’ve sort of said that I can help people run an awesome business in years past. But at no point did I sit down and do the hard work it would take to make mentoring and coaching my
Do you have the capacity for life and work?
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I feel compelled to make this disclaimer for some of my readers, if you’re not someone that is comfortable with lots of talk about faith. In particular a Christian God, then this is not a book for you. Please read on to see my highlights on the content of the book, but don’t get it
