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Are you in a hurry?
It is easy to spot when someone else is in a hurry. We notice the window cleaner misses a bit or leaves a smear, or a cleaner misses a cobweb or so, or the vegetables in the restaurant are not cooked,...
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Schedules? Boring but important
“I don’t want to be hemmed in by my diary” I am not a business coach, and have no ambition to be one. I do know a lot of business people and one who is in complementary therapy claims she has not...
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Don’t be greedy
Don’t eat them all! I believe in value billing. That means that I bill my clients what my advice and service should be worth to them. They get something they are happy with, and I get rewarded properly...
View ArticleStaying in touch
Human beings are social animals. We like to hear from people. We like to know that we are in the thoughts of others. We like to belong. Our clients and customers are human beings. They like to hear...
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The pain of business envy
We can always look over the fence and see how our colleagues and contemporaries are doing. Sometimes business acquaintances or former work colleagues are making shed-loads of money; much more than we...
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There is more to life than work
Doesn’t our work routine get in the way of real life sometimes? We need to have interests which take our minds off the daily routine. Even if we enjoy our work very much, which I hope we do, we need to...
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Bad professional vibes
We all pick up work we do not like. Usually we do not know we don’t like it until after we are committed to doing it, otherwise we might have declined it politely in the first place. The other day, I...
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What counts is what we can do
We had a very interesting speaker at a meeting I went to the other week. He was very knowledgeable in his subject and sounded as though he could really help his clients through tough times and to...
View ArticleShould I be retired?
Being of “a certain age”, which means no longer young, a lot of people I meet socially and even some who have known me a while think I must be retired. Well, I suppose I could have retired, but since I...
View ArticleBusiness and social media folly
My wife Gloria and I met an apparently very pleasant fellow at a weekend barbecue recently. We had a long chat covering a wide range of non-contentious subjects, and it emerged we had a hobby in common...
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