Sell before you invest!
People who are starting their own business, or starting a side-hustle to their work, often get held up trying to get investment so they can get started. This can delay […]
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Why money is not a good goal
It’s important to have goals, both for your work and your personal life. It’s very difficult to succeed at anything without a clear goal. You can have anything you like
Potential, comfort zone, and actual job performance
Here’s a game: give yourself a score for the follwoing three things, if you take your potential as a ten: You could even draw them as four concentric circles…. Ideally
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Free Will vs Determinism
Do you think you have free will? …….. I bet you’re answering “Yes” Could I predict what you’re going to do, if I knew everthing about you? If yes, then
The SLOP-SLOOF Matrix
Sales Lost On Price Sales Lost On Other Factors (unclear marketing, poor quality, bad cusotmer service) Where should we be? The answer is that SLOOF is always bad, so we
Abundance
Abundance Theory – here are ten examples, all of which I believe in: Do you agree? (even if you don’t like dogs – you can have cats if you prefer)
New Year thoughts
We all know that new year’s resolutions don’t last. Partly because they tend to be negative – all about giving things up, which our subconscious struggles to picture, so it
How to get promoted
Look good at the moment Be positive about new ideas, never negative Be easy to work with, low maintenance Appear in control – tidy desk, everything delivered when promised, on
12 ways to overcome Imposter Syndrome
We all suffer from imposter syndrome from time to time, especially at work – “I can’t believe they gave me this job”, “Why am I in charge of these people
Time Management is really only TWO decisions
As you face your desk or computer in the morning, there are only 2 decisions – what to do first, – and how long to spend on that before you
Need help asking for a raise? Pay-rise help here:
I got this from an excellent book called Managing Up by Melody Wilding: There’s a whole chapter on how to ask for a raise, and I really like it. Here
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How to overcome being a perfectionist
In some ways it’s good – high quality work is important, and in fact anything important should be done well, perhaps as well as you possibly can do it. But things
Definitive list of tradeables when negotiating salary
This could either be for an increase in your current job, or when negotiating at the start of a new job: at the job interview (while you still have walk
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Chris Croft’s Morning Routine
I was amused (to the point of wanting to vomit) when I read the morning routines of Mark Wahlberg, Jay Shetty and Oprah Winfrey: Marky Mark: “Prayers and vitamins” Jay:
“It’s not you, it’s me”
If you want anyone to change, let’s say it’s your boss just to make it interesting – how can you do it? Worst way – tell them they’re crap! “You
The A to Z of Success
Associate with good people Books – all the knowledge of the world is in books Comfort zone – come out of it every now and then Do and Be, not Have Enjoy
