So your big product launch failed …

August 11, 2010 – 9:55 pm

So, armed with a next-to-nothing budget and a half-way decent network, you tried to launch your new offering onto the world, and it just hasn’t taken off as you’d hoped.  Don’t feel too bad about it … I’m reading Buyology
by branding expert  Martin Lindstrom, and in the first chapter he reveals that on average [...]

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Are you driven?

July 25, 2010 – 7:48 pm

No, I don’t mean are you so successful you have a chauffeur!  I mean are you driven to succeed?  Do you feel some force behind you, propelling you forward, driving you to perform?  Is there something that just won’t let you rest until you’ve got everything you set out to achieve?
Many entrepreneurs are like that [...]

Square One – another great insight from Seth

September 6, 2009 – 12:46 pm

Seth Godin has hit the nail on the head again – I do love his blog.   On this post today (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/square-one-is-underrated.html) Seth points out that going back to square one may not be as bad as we think.
From a Busy Fool perspective, when

What have you done today to make you feel proud?

August 17, 2009 – 8:05 pm

I am constantly inspired by the words of Heather Small’s “Proud” – some of the uplifting lyrics in it include:

“Look into the window of my mind
Reflections of the fears I know I’ve left behind”

“I’m on my way
Can’t stop me now
And you can do the same”

“You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom”

“I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending”

“So what have you done today to make you feel proud?”

Each day I ask myself that question, xxx

Be a “con-artist”: get paid for doing what you love!

July 29, 2009 – 4:15 pm

I read somewhere a while back (my notes say it was in a Dan Sullivan article, but I didn’t note the title) that all successful entrepreneurs are essentially con artists – because they get other people to pay them for doing what they love, and would happily do for nothing.  Now I’m a great advocate [...]

Only lazy people work !!

July 19, 2009 – 2:14 pm

That was a statement made at Chris Howard’s Billionaire Bootcamp last week by “Lifestyle Trader” Aussie Rob – and it really struck a chord with me.

Sticking to your focus

June 4, 2009 – 10:09 pm

Reading Alan Stevens’ excellent PR & Media blog from last week, I was impressed with his article about the dangers of straying outside the boundaries of your focus of expertise.  Alan allows re-publishing with attribution, so the text is reproduced below:

Decisions & Time

April 26, 2009 – 12:13 pm

I don’t normally just link to other people’s blogs, but this one from Seth Godin is spot on: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/04/i-need-more-time.html

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Taking the time to focus on the good stuff

February 4, 2009 – 8:50 pm

The story in the link below was sent to me last week by my friend, Richard Bellars, the leadership coach.  It’s been around a while, according to Urban Legends, and it’s about a violinist playing beautiful music at a New York Metro station, pretty much ignored by the bustling crowds.

Laser focus or floodlight?

January 22, 2009 – 11:15 pm

As the recession bites deeper, with more and more reports of layoffs and businesses in financial difficulties, I’m increasingly hearing of people who are ’stretching’ the kind of business they will take on into new areas.  And a lot of the time, these new ventures are not really that closely linked to their core expertise, [...]