by John Drury | Jun 6, 2022 | Group Mentoring, Leadership Articles, Mindset, Personal Growth, Planning, Self Leadership, Small Business, Team Building, wellbeing
A sales trainer I once knew loved to take his clients away for a week’s bootcamp in a nice location and teach them to make high end B2B sales over the phone. He would boast at the end of the week how many hundreds of thousands of dollars of sales were ‘done’. I know...
by John Drury | May 23, 2022 | Mindset, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, values, wellbeing
Last night I spent 3 hours over dinner with a group of businessmen I am getting to know. We get together for dinner every 2 months to discuss how business effects our lives. We are all successful in our business life and want to make sure we are also successful as...
by John Drury | Apr 18, 2022 | Mindset, Personal Growth, Planning, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, values, wellbeing
In October 2007 I was a mess. I had recently resigned my very public position in a large community organisation. I had made some poor choices and was in a world of pain emotionally. My marriage was hanging by a thread and would soon fail. Most of the people in my...
by John Drury | Mar 28, 2022 | Contentment, Mindset, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, wellbeing
Are you working against yourself? Last Monday I was setting about all the tasks to start my week, and nothing was flowing. I had people cancelling due to Covid isolation rules from a lunch I was arranging the next day. A client needed to change a time for their...
by John Drury | Mar 7, 2022 | Finishing Well, Mindset, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, wellbeing
People respond to a crisis in many ways When a crisis hits it usually is something unexpected and disruptive. Even if it is something you saw coming, usually this is still very challenging. Different personalities react in various ways: Those who love to control...
by John Drury | Feb 21, 2022 | Finishing Well, Leadership Articles, Mindset, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, values
My innings had just begun. I had scored 2. A new bowler came on and seemed to be bowling straight up and down. No swing, no turn. I played down the line of the next ball coming at me confident I had it under control. However, the ball spun quite sharply, missed my bat...
