by John Drury | May 30, 2025 | Finishing Well, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, wellbeing
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...
by John Drury | Apr 25, 2025 | Finishing Well, Mindset, Personal Growth, Planning, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, wellbeing
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...
by John Drury | Mar 27, 2025 | Leadership Articles, Planning, Self Leadership, Small Business, Team Building
Working as a Business Mentor for the past 15 years, I have noticed a lot of business owners start to drift off track by the end of March. After the Christmas/New Year holiday break, most have clarity about their goals and are able to implement some basic plans at the...
by John Drury | Feb 25, 2025 | difficult conversations, Finishing Well, Mindset, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, Small Business, wellbeing
Uncomfortable is very different to Unsafe Uncomfortable does not mean unsafe. The opposite of uncomfortable is comfortable. Unsafe means dangerous. An uncomfortable conversation is not automatically dangerous. In fact, it is not usually dangerous. When a manager or...
by John Drury | Jan 27, 2025 | Finishing Well, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, values, wellbeing
Stamina – the oft-missing ingredient when we talk about resilience Australian Open tennis matches often go for 4 gruelling hours. It makes me exhausted watching. And then if a player wins, they get to go again two days later against a slightly higher ranked player for...
by John Drury | Jan 7, 2025 | Finishing Well, Personal Growth, Planning, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, wellbeing
Just before Christmas 2024, I had surgery to remove my prostate gland. There were very early signs of cancer developing there. My father and grandfather both died when cancer metastasised from their prostate to other parts of their body. My urologist strongly advised...
