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Follow the Butterfly – Passion Looks Crazy

Imagine you are high up in the sky, looking down at somebody walking in a field. The person is moving in ridiculously haphazard directions. Stopping. Starting. Turning left right. Turning around. Repeating. They are not going in a straight line. They are not finishing anything. […]

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Stop Serving to Create Business

One of the ways I’ve learned to create success in business is by actively helping people – to provide some product or service – before they ever pay anything or become a client/customer. In countless industries, both in my own businesses and those of my […]

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Living (and Sailing) With Integrity

When I was a little kid, I would go with my father to check on the houses he was building. I loved to explore the maze of timber sticks and breathe in the smell of sawdust. I remember one summer morning looking down a set […]

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Yoda Was Wrong – Try, Do or Do Not

My coach Rich posted an update on Facebook last year about how Yoda was wrong. He was saying that by denouncing ’trying’, he underestimated the power of the willingness to TRY.

I agreed and suggested that at the same time, Yoda was right too. Too often people weaken themselves by ‘trying’ instead of committing.

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Talk About Money – Enter The Haunted House

Lots of people I meet are scared to have the ‘money’ conversation. It feels like going into a dark, scary house at the end of the street that everyone says is haunted. You want to do it, but you don’t want to do it.

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Your Results Don’t Matter

Most coaches say “IT’S ALL ABOUT RESULTS!” However, I don’t actually care what results my clients get. Results are something that are either in the future or in the past. You cannot experience results.

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The Quick Fix Lie

The self-help world is predominantly made up of narcissistic people looking for a quick fix. This is why I distance myself from most of it.

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Schedule Meetings With Your Demons

One practice I’ve developed is blocking out time to have meetings with myself. No distractions, no iPhone or a book or anything. Just me a pen, paper and a coffee.

The idea of meeting with imaginary advisors is an old one that works well. Meeting with the world’s top people all inside your head can help you make decisions.

However, in an effort to delve deeper into my potential, I’ve recently started a new practice of meeting with my ‘demons’. I get really curious as to what it is they are hiding from me…

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How NOT to be a Struggling Business Artist (Or a Flat Spirited-Millionaire)

A friend of mine recently called me saying he was a “failure”. This was despite the fact that he has created numerous beautiful and amazing things and businesses at his young age.

After a few questions, I got that he meant ‘failure’ in the terms of financial success.

I told my friend, that’s because you are a Struggling Business Artist. You are so dedicated to doing YOUR thing that you’re not paying enough attention to what people actually need.

I see this a lot with creatives. Almost as much as I see the opposite…those people who are making loads of money but whose spirit is flat and dead.

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How to Know Where to Begin

One of my clients, previously a doctor and now starting a new business, was explaining to me how overwhelmed she felt with all of the things she had to do.”I just don’t know what to do first! How do I know where to start?!” she […]

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