Let’s face it. We all get angry at times. Some $@*%^$! cuts us off while driving. A staff member or partner rips you off. You get burnt because of someone else’s fire. Some things make you see red - don’t they?
Stuff that makes my blood boil is like when the Rainbow Warrier happens. What total […]

There’s a story about a donkey that’s been going around the Internet for quite a while. No doubt some dude knows where it comes from and it was probably in a parchment written by Norman Vincent Peale in 1642 in a monastery in Northern Poland, or something like that.
I first heard it years ago, but […]

There are different ways to respond when a business idea fails. There’s a big difference between saying “We were wrong” and abandoning the idea, and saying “We didn’t quite get it right” and modifying your business strategy to make it work.
When we developed the Internet UNMASKED!! events, we did so on the basis that we […]

We’ve all got a limited amount of it - time, that is. There seems to be increasing pressure on us to squeeze everything into the time that we have. To work harder, faster and do more.
I work hard, and I play hard. I’ve squeezed more into my time on earth thus far than many other […]

It’s a mistake to think that our understanding of scientific principles is complete. Throughout history, previously established facts have been dis-proven and tweaked to give us new understanding of our world.
The flat-earth concept and the idea that the earth is central to the movement of the stars were both rejected in the light of new […]

I work hard. I put in long hours and enjoy it, but I only do some things well. For the rest, I need others to help me out. These workers, producers and managers do the little things that “drive me nuts”.
We need different people to do different things, or we will self-destruct. Earlier this year […]

People are all different. Thank goodness for that! Some of us are out the front trail blazing, others are supporters and workers, helping to make it happen and yet others are just takers - the ones who just get along with the free ride. Sure, it’s not nice to talk about these guys, but it’s […]

There’s a massive difference between an entrepreneur, a technician and a manager. I’m the former and I employ the latter two. It works well. Really well actually.
The differences between an eagle and a flightless bird are obvious. A lot of us would like to be an eagle that got the great view, and best pick […]

We all do it to some extent, but I seem to spend a lot of time judging and analysing other people. Some of this tendency I put down to paternal training, some of it takes the attention away from myself, and some of it is just, let’s face it, is probably just arrogance.
Getting it right […]

We all want to get it right, and there’s nothing better than making a good judgement call on the share market, at the TAB, or in business. When we get it right, the money just rolls in.
Choosing the right partner in business or the right product is also a good feeling. There’s something so rewarding […]

That’s the active tense version. Put it in the passive, and it comes out more like “It wasn’t my fault!” The other variants of this delightful little thought are things like “Don’t blame me!” or “He made me do it!” I don’t hear. “It’s my fault - I’ll sort it out” too often.
Based on my […]

A gas station owner down the road from me, recently got pinged for hiking the price of petrol by a few cents a litre. He claims that he had a sign on the counter (explaining the surcharge) that might have got turned around by accident. Yeah right!
Look, I don’t know whether he did it deliberately […]

When you are born to be a wheeler-and-dealer, it really hurts to have to pay the full retail price for something.
A natural trader-from-hell trader-at-heart, I am always looking for a deal; a way to trade something that I have, or that I can create, for something that I need or want. This approach to business […]