Steve McAnanly, my father-in-law, is 86 years old, legally blind, and pretty much deaf. But none of that stops him. These days Steve lives with us but goes home to his house every morning around 9am. He comes back in time for dinner, after his daily visit to the local pub for an hour or […]
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Barry’s Story
We’ve just had one of our top apprentices, Barry Pope, featured in the Herald Sun, the largest-read newspaper in Australia. Barry is a 71-year-old great-grandfather, but he’s not willing to “let an old person in” and give up on challenging himself. It was a terrific story, and it just got better. He was […]
Balance is Bullshit!
People often ask me about balance in life. Well, I can tell you there was never any balance in my life for many years. In the early days of being in business, it was all about choice and I chose to build a successful business, and to do that I needed to work 7 days […]
Help Yourself to Help Your Business
I have just been to Tasmania to do one of my Bread workshops and it went really well. I do these workshops with Roger Simpson, from the Productivity Increase Group, as the facilitator and we have done these workshops for many types of businesses. The Bread workshop is presented four segments in a half-day workshop, […]
Business Success Strategies: The 4 Key Factors That Will Lift You Right Out of the Crowd
I had to do some talks in South Africa to 3 very different groups of people. The first one was in a mountain area called the “Drakensburg”, a beautiful part of South Africa, about a 5 hours drive from Johannesburg. I was speaking for the OK Supermarket chain, with owners from all over South Africa, […]