The initial phase of a business journey is pretty amazing, but it’s also hugely challenging. It’s one of those beautiful periods of time where your brain is constantly learning but your capacity is also being tested in every way. While you’re working your furry little rear off and learning so much that some days you …
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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 than myself. And I have …
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 these businesses are Western Australian …
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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 out. Embarrassingly, I literally spent …
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 absolutely earth-swallow-me-up-dismal. I’d feel so …
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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 would like more of. My …
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 shitfulness. 1. Making a Mistake, …
Life Gone to hell in a Hand Basket? You’ll be Okay Read More »
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 and text messages represent a …
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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 exhaustion, if they’re always on …
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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 the small business people I …
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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 not about small business owner …
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 the person or people you’ll …
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 hyperventilating and hot in masks …
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 School of the Air with …
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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 choose who we support more …
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 . . . What a feeling”? …
6 Benefits of Working from Home in Business 1. You get more done Productivity can be a boring topic, so I’m not going to bang on about it. Essentially, you can get a lot more done running a business from home. There’s no interruptions or casual chatter to distract you from achieving some solid outcomes. …
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 with most team sports because …
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 them or lose them and …
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 fabulous. So I thought I’d …
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 strikes a chord in our …
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 scared, resentful perfectionist I used …
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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 come back, and they offer …
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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 over a life time. I …
In small business, we tend to spend a lot of time being super aware of our own personal limitations. The fact that our own precious self is our greatest asset in business, and in life, is often forgotten. The buck stops with us as business owners, so we are always aware of our shortcomings. There …
1. 30 Minutes of Anything is Do-able If you are anything like me, sometimes you’ll have days where you have to work to motivate yourself. I’m one of those people who likes to see things get done, but sometimes I don’t necessarily like to get them done personally. I’d rather already be at relaxed and …