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...
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...
