by John Drury | Oct 21, 2025 | Finishing Well, Personal Growth, Self Leadership, wellbeing
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...
by John Drury | Sep 25, 2025 | Finishing Well, Mindset, Personal Growth, Planning, Rhythm of Life, values, wellbeing
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...
by John Drury | Jun 25, 2025 | Finishing Well, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, values, wellbeing
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...
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 | 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...
