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Getting older and wiser is absolutely bloody awesome.    Personally, I reject the ageist beliefs that a lot of people go along with in our society.   Instead, I choose leadership.    By this I mean that I recognise that I am in a leadership position relative to people younger

We often don’t think about the Australian businesses that make a real difference in our rural communities. Yet their products are important tools in our businesses and our homes.  Their products are a staple in our lives and become part of the infrastructure that makes our communities work.  And where

I spent so much of my life waiting for things. I used to have this terrible passive belief that “everything was going to work out.”  I believed that I just had to keep enduring things because I’d be able to look back eventually and smile happily, when everything had worked

I’m not a huge fan of the norm. From what I’ve experienced, when things become standard or run of the mill, they’re often a less than great experience. I didn’t always feel this way.  I actually used to look at the websites of other businesses in my industry and feel

Time management has certainly been an absolute shit show for me. Feeling like you’re fighting an ongoing battle with time and always losing is awfully painful.  Because time is of course one of the most precious resources each of us has, and it’s the one thing that all of us

Has shit gone seriously south for you? I can relate. But these days when shit goes wrong I’ve got a few more tricks up my sleeve to handle it, without wearing my body out feeling miserable and stressed. I’m going to look at two different scenarios, in ascending order of

I don’t know about you, but I’m roundly sick of being continuously emailed and texted for my feedback. Often such requests are presented after the most trivial of interactions with a business. Or, worse, I’m both texted and emailed an identical request for feedback. Seriously, just duck off. Such emails

Small business people have the most amazing work ethics.  They work whenever they can.  They’ll often even use their weekends, public holidays and evenings to squeeze more work in.  They love to get their hands dirty and to make beautiful things happen. But they can also easily kill themselves with

I love people who run their own small businesses. The reason I love people who run small businesses is because they all share the below awesome traits.  To clarify though, I’m not saying that other people don’t have the below traits, they certainly do.  However, I’ve noticed that all of

How are you doing? I hope that you’re going okay and that you’re not feeling completely reamed up the proverbial. Because let’s face it, if you’ve got a small business you would’ve experienced severe fatigue at one point or other.  Firstly, I just want to state that this article is

1. Do Your Homework Before you engage a business, do some research.  If you know other people who’ve used their services, talk to them.  Look at their website and any other information they provide. Most importantly though, speak to them and ask questions.  This gives you a good feel for

It was March 2022.  The WA Government was enforcing “emergency” laws left right and centre, because there was a pandemic on.  Where previous pandemics had always previously been responded to with calm, this time there had to be panic, and it had to be widespread. All of us were kept

The human spirit is a pretty awesome thing, and I’m so glad for mine. I boarded at a co-educational private school known as Sacred Heart College in Perth for my five years of high school. I’d come from a sheep station, where all of my primary education had been through

Now more than ever, businesses who know right from wrong will thrive.  A business owner’s ethics have always been absolutely critical, but these days we’re all more tired of being poorly treated than we used to be.  We’re more wary of businesses that aren’t worthy of our trust, and we

The most beautiful thing about business is that you can do it exactly how you want to do it. Want to do a thank you video after a customer makes a purchase on your website showing yourself in a leotard doing a bad rendition of Irene Cara’s Flash Dance .

When I went to boarding school for my high school years, I unfortunately had to attend a compulsory subject called Physical Education, or PE. I was a rank outsider from station territory in the bush, where most of the time we worked instead of playing sport. I certainly wasn’t familiar

I’ve been in small business for over seven years, and I love the fact that I’ve received a number of personal benefits over that time. Sure, the financial benefits you receive from running a small business are super important. But personal benefits are also absolute gold, because you can’t spend

Are you frustrated because you aren’t working with the kind of clients you’d like to work with? I’ve been in business for a while, and I’m now at a point where I’m working with a few seriously awesome clients.  They’re very different people from very different backgrounds, but they’re all

There is pure gold in the hard earned wisdom of others. That’s why I love quotes so much. Quotes are also a great example of the fact that often times, less is more.  Sometimes we don’t need reams of text, we just need to read something beautiful and useful that

One of the things I love about business is the fact that you constantly make mistakes, dust yourself off, learn a lesson, and move on. While I used to be a perfectionist, luckily I eventually learnt how dangerous this was.  And I have no wish to go back to the

1. Small Business Gives you a Better Price Small business understand the importance of offering value to their customers, because small business people live in your community too.  They don’t live in a corporate ivory tower in the heart of a capital city.  Small business people also want you to

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always loved quotes. I love their power to help and inspire you when you are stuck in a deep black quagmire. I love how a quote can contain no more than a few words, but still be so powerful that it remains unforgettable