Image via Wikipedia I thought I would share these Words by Og Mandino with you. I will act now.  I will act now.  I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much habit as my breathing, and the action that follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.  I will...

3 Time Management Tips For Business Success Time management is a bit of a misnomer really because we can’t manage time, we can only manage the events that happen in time, so bearing that in mind here are some tips to help you. 1. Plan The Day – every night before you go to bed plan your next day.  The more detail that you put in generally means the more productive you will be and the better your time management  There are 3...

Benjamin Disraeli, possibly England’s greatest Prime Minister achieved this position through the sheer force of his will.  How did he do this? Disraeli started off life as an author where he managed to publish a dozen or so books, however none of them found favour with the public at the time.  At this point he could have just accepted defeat and we would never have heard of him. Undetered he decided he would make his name in...

Life will get interesting if you look at things from a new perspective, a different angle or a new vantage point.  Somebody introduced me to this recently and I think it is well worth sharing. It is called “The George Carlin Theory…” The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends… I mean, life is tough.  It takes up a lot of your time and what do you get at the end of it?  Death.  I mean, what’s that,...

You may have used negotiation techniques at some time in your service life, even without being aware of it, but after leaving the armed forces this skill will become even more important. There will come a time in business when we need to negotiate, and its important that we prepare for such an eventuality.  It’s not just deals in the boardroom that will require a refined negotiation technique.  It could be agreeing a contract with...

If your business is still in its infancy are you focused on production? Olympic sprinters, apparently, reach their highest speeds not long after they explode out of the blocks, they then spend the rest of the race slowing down.  The winners are the ones that slow down the least.  Its that way with most businesses when they first get going, the initial phase is usually when the business is the most productive.  Thats when the big ideas...