Entrepreneurs: Do You LOVE What You Do?

The title of my first e-book is Creating A Business to Love*.   Do you love the business you are creating?   All of it? Which bits do you love and why?   Which bits do you hate and why?   And how can you move to doing more of the former and less of the latter? Depending on [...]

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Entrepreneurs: A Business Worth Getting Up Early For?

Do you have a business or a business idea worth getting up early for? Today I began a new regime of rising at 6 a.m. to begin to take chunks out of a project I am passionate about.   In winter I like to lie abed until 8 a.m. and begin work at 9 but I [...]

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be Rich?

Philip Beresford, author of The Richest of the Rich, is quoted in today’s Mail on Sunday in an article about the Money Gene, thus: “You need massive energy, single-minded focus, self-confidence and the ability to arrange your social life so that it comes second.” What do you think?   Do you have those qualities?   Are you [...]

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An Entrepreneur’s Alphabet: M is for Money

“Money’s nothing; its just a way of keeping score” is a favourite quote of mine attributed to all and sundry, including Trump. It doesnt matter who said it, and you can imagine it tripping lightly off the tongue of someone who has plenty of it, can’t you?

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An Entrepreneur’s Alphabet: E is for Energy

People have often admired my energy and I know that people hang around me to feed off it. What’s important as I get older is to harness it, appreciate it, bless it, husband it and use it wisely for the highest good. And this helps me because as I recognise how precious this finite resource is, I cannot afford to waste energy needlessly. It’s a bit like running the tap while brushing your teeth. We used to do it all the time when we were younger but now we know better. We don’t waste a natural resource which we have come increasingly to value.

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