Here’s your weekly shot of inspiration: “What folly to dread the thought of throwing life away at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.” — John Howe, Canadian Artist This is a great quote. It’s so true and it packs a punch. Survey after survey show people regretting […]
One of my all-time favourite books on Selling is ‘How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling” by Frank Bettger. It was written in 1947! Yet, it’s packed full of real insights. One interesting point he makes, as a result of keeping detailed records of his activity, is the following breakdown of where […]
This week’s inspirational quote was taken from J.K. Rowling’s Commencement Address to Harvard in 2008. I’d never heard her speak or be interviewed before and I was impressed by her words. Here’s some exerpts that I found particularly interesting: (The video is below) “Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to […]
One of the replies I received on the back of the quote from Michael Jordan last week, had this question below: “How do start up business owners know whether or not they are just flogging a dead horse? Maybe their business just won’t work and they need to walk away. It can be soul destroying […]
(See bonus video for blog visitors below) Hey there. Here’s this week’s shot of inspiration on a Monday: “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my […]
Had a great session today with the Inspired Business Club Workshop that runs every month in the Glenview Hotel. There was a nice ‘active’ mix of business owners based in Wicklow, Dublin and Kildare. Apart from a healthy exchange of ideas, insights and useful contacts, there was also a useful discussion around ‘Critical Thinking […]
I spent an interesting day & overnighter as part of a workshop in the spectacular Inish Turk Beg island Last week. This pic is one of the amazing views of the island. Great place to get away from it all but also to get inspired. 5 star accommodation & a 25 m indoor heated pool […]
Hi there, I recently composed a poll to see what are some of the biggest distractions in work. This poll got such a huge response that I would like to show you the results: Email 41% Other Colleagues 34% Social Networking Sites 10% Phone 7% Other 7% (This included ‘My Mind’ and ‘Reading BlogPosts!!) So […]
I don’t know about you but I get through an amazing amount of work when I travel on a plane or a train. I also get some of my most creative ideas, so much so that a couple of times I’ll admit to getting on a train to Cork even when I didn’t have to! […]
Here’s your shot of weekly inspiration: “The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.” – W. Edwards Deming (Pioneer in continuous improvement movement) When Mr. Deming made this comment I’d say he wouldn’t have imagined what email and the internet would do to the […]
