How much time are you wasting?

June 15, 2008 – 11:08 pm

Now, I’m not talking about the time you spend gawking at the goggle-box (though that really is a complete waste of time), and I’m not talking about the time you spend wading through spam e-mails.  I’m not even talking about the time you spend on the web using online networks (or whatever).
The time I’m talking [...]

Focus, Potential & Performance

June 4, 2008 – 11:07 pm

I saw Marcus Alexander of Confidence Plus give a talk yesterday at the Surrey Business Club, and he used an interesting formula¹, that gels with my post last week about the importance of Focus. The formula goes:
PERFORMANCE = POTENTIAL – INTERFERENCE
So if we can reduce interference, performance should go up. Marcus was using [...]

So why is Focus important to success?

May 27, 2008 – 10:57 pm

We are repeatedly told that in business, focus is essential to success. Not many of us – especially the more creative and entrepreneurial types – do it particularly well. Or maybe I just attract the clients who don’t – I have two in particular who are constantly calling me to run the latest great opportunity [...]

Opportunity + Preparation = Success

April 24, 2008 – 8:21 pm

Have you ever noticed how success just seems to happen to some people – you know, the lucky ones who seem to have everything go right for them? The type who opportunities actually seek out, like they have some kind of money magnet in their heads. The type who breeze up, wave their magic wand, [...]