My school holidays were heavily used to play video games. We would play Super Mario Bros and Contra for hours. What a waste of time, you might think and I might just agree but unknowingly I was also training myself into four very important business mindsets: Know where you want to end up (rescuing the…
Month: September 2019
In Scheme Of Things
Some of us are of the view that everything needs to be perfect and any discrepancy needs to be sorted out. It would be good if the business world would be perfect and we had all the time we needed on our hands but the truth is we just can’t get everything right. I use…
Doing more with less.
We all (me included) want to have more. More money, more time, more clients, more holidays, and the list goes on. We at times don’t understand how more works. Say you want to increase your revenues. Your first thought might be “I can be able to do this by getting more clients/customers”. As true as…
The need for your business to focus on the present and the future and not the past.
We very often hear phrases like “When we were young”, “When I started my business”, “When I was at university”, “We used to do things like this”, “Before we expanded”, “When I was 25 year old” etc. Unfortunately some of us just stay in the past and don’t come to realise that as wonderful and…
Value of customers and team
A partner in a firm decides to leave the firm so he approaches another firm to be a partner there. “How many clients are you bringing with you?” he is asked. “None, I am going to leave them there and start afresh” he says. He is told to get lost. Customers who buy from you…
Be impressed not envious…
The nature of my work is that I come across many stories of success and super duper success. So what happens when I come across a client who is more successful than I am? I get impressed or inspired even. The other way to feel would be envy, which so many of us do feel…
There is more than one way to look at something
Over the weekend we reviewed the insurances we had. The thought did cross my mind that I was paying for life insurance, health insurance, house insurance, car insurance, etc but we had never claimed anything ever!? Waste of money right? Actually not. The fact that we haven’t had to claim anything back from an insurance…
Know your worth
The other day I went with my daughter to the shops to buy a particular game of Lego. It was the last piece on the shelf so I did what most of us would do, I checked the packaging to make sure that it wasn’t a damaged piece. Fortunately it wasn’t but then I noticed…
Breakfree from whatever is holding you back
Shekhar Astitwa (Indian Lyricist) in one of his songs wrote what can be loosely translated as: “Melt the chains that hold you back, make swords out of them and win every battle with them. So what if you are out of luck, so what if your swords are broken, fight with the broken swords and…
Fear of success
When I started my accounting business all those year ago, I came up with a great tax advice product (or so I thought at that time). It was so great in my mind and in my plans that I thought it would be crazy successful and I wont have the resources to deal with all…