Today’s post is short and sweet. It breaks down an intense frustration felt by everyone, entrepreneurs especially, and provides three sure-fire solutions.

You know all those things you should be doing. That you’ve been told to do. Perhaps they’re things you’ve read about. Or, even worse, they’re things you simply tell yourself to do – things so blindly obvious you don’t need to be told. You simply know you should.

Today I’m serving up the psychological magic bullets (yes really) that turn should-do’s into done.  Continue reading “Why you don’t do what you should”

If you’ve been hanging out in the personal development world for a while, you’ve probably heard the advice “go with your gut”. It’s a staple of the self-aware, enlightened success-&-business crowd and I’m a massive advocate.

In fact, I’ve often described the work I do as revolving around “reconnecting people with their unconscious mind”. It’s about hearing what your animal instinct is telling you and it’s a lens through which I can view all my client interactions.

When I was asked to write a post on when NOT to pay attention to your gut intelligence… I was baffled. Until I remembered this story… Continue reading “When it’s good to ignore your gut”

Imagine giving it your all.

Imagine you created a product, built a business or lead a project that you poured 100% of your potential into. Imagine you harvested every scrap of your potential, then found some you didn’t even know you had. Imagine pouring all of that into your work.

Then, you birth your thing into the world. You put it out there for the market to judge. Continue reading “Why you’ll never give things your all”

There’s a noun that the personal development industry avoids like a leper. Excuse enough, I think, for me to write a post on the topic. Don’t let the title mislead you either – I’m not talking about money.

Some would say this thing (and our lack of it) is the whole reason the self help industry exists. We’re shamefully obsessed with it, but we can’t touch it, see it or hear it. Yet, we marvel at what it does in the world. We never talk about it directly but we never stop thinking about it.

What is this elixir of awesome? Read on to find out… Continue reading “The currency of human potential”