I write about the stuff that actually gets in the way of leading well — the blind spots, the habits, and the systems you built that now run you instead of the other way round.
No theory. Just what I’ve seen work with the CEOs and founders I coach.
45 Simple Reasons Why You Might Be Struggling With Mental Or Physical Health
45 Simple Reasons Why You Might Be Struggling With Mental Or Physical Health
1. You don’t watch the sunrise outside. Yep. That’s a requirement just like sleep
2. You don’t have a consistent
⏰ Work life balance has very little to do with time
⛔️ It’s has far more to do with what you want to be doing with your time and what you don’t want to be doing with your time.
👨👩👧👦 More often it has even more to do with relationship expectations alignment.
In the first insistence ⏰ there are conversations to be had about doing what’s important over what seems urgent and how a skilful conversation can save 1,000 hours and how an unskillful conversation can create 1,000 wasted hours.
In the second ⛔️ we can talk about aligning values, purpose, and passion behind what you’re doing as well as creating a life you love now rather than waiting for some distant goal that will some how magically change everything.
How to build a business that owns YOU
Whether you’re building to sell or building for profit or BOTH suffering your way to success is a process that has a lot of victims. You SUFFER because when you’re living a life you loath you experience the EXACT life you didn’t want for yourself along with your health, energy, mood, and relationships all suffering.
Your loved ones suffer as they get the worse of you as they get the tail end of your energy, the worst of your mood, the guilt of your suffering for them and the least of your time. Even your colleagues and the business suffer as the energy, enthusiasm and inspiration required to both operate and sell a business can’t be faked for long.
8 Myths about work life balance my clients don’t believe anymore...
Eventually every leader realises that you can have all the success in the world. But if you don’t have good quality time and energy left to spend with the people you love then it’s all for nothing. But when it was HUSTLE and HARD WORK that got you where you are it can be hard to believe there is any other way. Yet believe you MUST if you are to start taking steps towards creating it.
An Invitation To Do Less
Read the same book again. All learning is associative. This means if your intent is to integrate the knowledge in the book you’re reading into your life then your best bet is to read it again.
To make notes.
To re-read those notes and to tell a bunch of people about it.
Someone else might read 3 books in the time you read your book.
What I love about a crisis or the 5 things we need now more than EVER
Okay, first and foremost I am not making light here. I’m not suggesting that I am happy about what has happened. Neither am I suggesting that no businesses have fallen victim to the current or future side effects or what’s happening at the moment.
However, there were 5 things that were important before this that have now significantly increased in importance and that I believe is a good thing.
In fact they were ALWAYS the most important things but now and going forward their consequences will result in more rapid and undesirable feedback.