Designing a Life that brings you true fulfillment
The oldest stone arch bridge on the Australian mainland – Lennox Bridge in Emu Plains (completed 1833) An arch bridge is a powerful metaphor for life. As I understand it (as a non-engineer), the strength of the bridge depends on the integrity of the segments that make...
The Importance of Finding What Works to Replenish You
Recently, I was reminded of how easily business owners can lose their sense of personal agency. A client I’ve connected with recently had reached a point where he was simply going through the motions, working, sleeping, and feeling deeply unfulfilled. Despite running...
Consistency: The Surest Pathway to Success
They say practice makes perfect. But that’s not quite true. Practice makes permanent. If you repeatedly practice a poor golf swing, it won’t improve, it will simply become ingrained. The same principle applies in business and life. Consistency alone doesn’t create...
Winning the Battle of the Mind: The Hidden Edge in Business
In business, we often focus on strategy, systems, and sales. But there’s a deeper, quieter battle that determines whether we succeed or stall: the battle of the mind. Before we step into the marketplace to lead, influence, or sell, we must first win the internal war...
Our current concept of ‘Retirement’ needs to be REDEFINED
Our new long lives When the aged pension was introduced in New South Wales in June 1900 the age at which men could access it was 65, and for women it was 60. The average life expectancy for males in 1900 was 51.8 years, and females 54.8 years. This meant there was a...
The internal fight you must win to finish well in business and in life
They say, “Your attitude determines your altitude.” Dale Carnegie estimated that SUCCESS was 85% attitude and 15% who you know. Well, I am coming to see that finishing well in business and life depends on attitude (in our control) more than circumstances (not always...
How to find purpose beyond your business or career
On a recent trip to the Gold Coast, I booked an Uber from the airport to Surfers Paradise. The Uber driver had been a successful businessman who had recently retired from all aspects of operating his businesses. After a few months, his wife told him to get out of the...
Who helps you see your blind spots?
I was meeting with a client yesterday who is having challenges dealing with a new person in her business. He is quite task driven and not very intuitive about reading people. It doesn’t help that he has been working mostly on his own in the past 5 years, with few...
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