Author: Encouraging Excellence

  • Drill First, Skim Next

    Anybody who has read Napoleon Hill’s book Think And Grow Rich will be familiar with the phrase: “Drill an inch wide and a mile deep” Yet how many new business owners stick with that principle?  When we set up in business we often have so much to do that in that process itself that our […]

  • Unfavourable Forfeits From Floppy Focus

    You are a business owner and are busy running your business to (hopefully) the best of your ability. You do up a To-Do list and then try to stick to it as best you can. However there are days when you go over the things you managed to get done and the things you simply […]

  • You Might As Well Quit…!

    I’ve been reminded recently by quite a few small business owners that they felt that they didn’t really feel like they had much choice about becoming self-employed and also reminded that some of them still resent what they consider their options being limited, due to no fault of their own. They find they are struggling […]

  • Do You Have The Ronseal Factor?

    We all see the adverts on television and some of them we can recite from memory, often including the tone of voice too. I’m sure many of you remember the Ronseal adverts. Y’know, the one where the man was wood staining his front door and stated that it said on the tin it would be […]

  • So You Wanna Be A….

    “I wanna be a (insert your own wanna here) so much”. This is a phrase I hear quite a lot in my line of work. My reply to that is always “So what is stopping you?” At this point there usually comes a stream of excuses..ahem..reasons as to why they are not being what they […]