If I asked the question of the average business owner what the best type of customer is, they would answer “a paying customer”… but this is merely stating the obvious because a non paying customer is not really a customer. So what would be the better answer to that question? So many businesses are…
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Easter is here which is as good time as any to think about eggs… but, oh no, I don’t mean colourful aluminium foil wrapped, chocolaty eggs; I mean nest eggs. We work for some 40 odd years and then one day we get a chance to sit back and relax. We deserve it, after all…
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Were you told to seek good grades at school and then seek the financial security that a job can give you? I was, as are many of us, but in recent times there have been four big blows to job security that have made even the most successful of employees ponder whether job security is…
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Although some 3% of the world’s entire population only ever achieve real success and build enough wealth to achieve financial freedom, even fewer go beyond that mark. I am talking about the mark of a highly successful person – someone who not only achieves success once, but consistently… goal after goal, taking every idea from…
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You will, undoubtedly find that anyone who has achieved success has done so by setting goals and then working, in a stepped approach to achieving those goals. A lot of thought needs to be put into choosing goals, however, as a goal without a real sense of purpose will fail to provide the reward you…
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My previous blog post investigated a very interesting project carried out by Amy Krouse Rosenthal who decided to test whether people could sniff out an opportunity if it was right under the noses – in this case it was by placing a money tree in front of pedestrians on a street in Chicago. Now, when…
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