fbpx

Homer’s Turn

  Hi There, In the 3 years I’ve been doing this Monday email shot, I never got a response to an email like the one last week – the words of inspiration coming from my 4 year old daughter, Jane. Some people suggested I should retire and let her send out the emails. Hopefully that […]

Pictures from client hike

Amazing weather today for the client hike in glendalough. Sore feet but very clear head at the end of it. Here’s some pics. And all within 40 minutes from Dublin!

Wisdom For Life From A 4 Year Old.

This week’s shot of inspiration is from an unusual source… my daughter, Jane, aged 4…and 3 months. She has taken over everything else so I guess it was only a question of time before she got to my weekly email! We had a rough night with her last Tuesday and she woke the house up […]

Throwing Life Away? And 7% Sales.

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 […]

Are You Chasing The 7% In Sales?

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 […]

Wisdom From The Creator Of Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling

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 […]

How Do You Know When To Walk Away?

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 […]