Every day is a red letter day
It seems so at the moment – there is so much going on. After Tuesday’s visioning exercise, Wednesday was a “head down” day of answering client emails, reading and responding to their weekly progress reports, making some phone calls and generally keeping my task list manageable. A big “tick” on yesterday’s list was also completing [...]
The view from the top
My business planning day was inspiring. Mike Hutchinson (my coach for the day) began by explaining that when we were standing at the base of a mountain and looking up, it appeared to be a stiff climb – but that when we are standing on the summit, the view will be spectacular. I have been [...]
A day of professional indulgence
Today I am working with an accountant/business coach, spending 8 hours being coached 1:1 on my business vision for the next 10 years. I met him at a recent workshop, which he attended as a guest of one of my dental clients. We connected over lunch, I visited his offices and we discovered a lot [...]
They are trying to get me
I’ve been attacked by two silver BMW’s in the last 48 hours. On Thursday a 5 series driven by a French Poodle (read the next issue of my ezine for an explanation) and Friday a 3 series convertible. The poodle incident was at 20mph and so taking avoiding action was easy enough and humurous. Yesterday, [...]
Scarcity creates demand – my second blog today
A coach and former client sent me a link today to a web page she had created with a new service provided by Google – cleverly entitled “Google Page Creator” (how do they think of such cool names?). So this afternoon, in between “to do’s” I ambled over to the web site and received the [...]
Interviews
In the last 24 hours I have been interviewed by two coaches over the telephone. 1. Last night with James Smith in America on the subject of “creating nourishing work environments”: This reminded me of just how much trouble I go to in creating physical spaces where I can do my best work. When I [...]
Back to school
Today I have an appointment at the college that two of my sons attend (ages 17 and 15). Over the years I have often giggled or fumed at the amount of notice that schools and colleges give of parent evenings or social events. They do not seem to understand that, for some business people, the [...]
A new blogging system
You will notice a slightly changed look to the blog today. My web business manager, Kim Black, suggested that we move to WordPress – so here I am! No idea why – but I trust Kim’s judgement and she tells me this will be better in the long term. I’m expecting to add some features [...]
Huff and puff and blow the house down
My lunchtime bowl of creamy vegetable soup is nearly sputtered out as I watch the aerial shots above Wembley Stadium, showing that a welding has failed in the structure. Thousands of hard-hatted builders and consultants evacuated to a nearby car park and work stopped in its tracks, after we have already been told that the [...]
Performance and behaviour
An interesting conversation on Wednesday evening’s telephone conference produced the following email exchange – good enough to share with you today: “Hi Chris I enjoyed the phone in last night which left me pondering a few things – what would you say is the difference between performance and behaviour? I presume that performance is more [...]
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