The Most Important Word in Business

The Most Important Word in Business I once posted an article on a personal development forum entitled ‘The most Important Word in Business’. I’ll be honest, it’s a long time ago now and I’ve actually forgotten the exact word I proposed. Not too impressive you might think? What I do remember though was the best [...]

The Joys of Supermarket Shopping

Come on admit it, we all love supermarkets?!? Struggling to find a parking space, all the people, negotiating our trolleys up and down the aisles, trainee checkout staff. It’s blissfull. We’ve not tried doing the food shop on line yet but I don’t like waiting in for people and I’ve never really fancied the idea [...]

Why do We Buy Things?

We buy things for many reasons, we buy lots of things we need and lots of things we don’t need. If you have serious designs on making money it is vital that you understand why people buy. # Necessity: We can’t live without things such as food, water, shelter etc, so we have to aquire [...]

How to Get Promoted

How to Get Promoted When pitching to a group of people it is crucial that we ascertain as early as possible who the decision maker(s) is. A good way of doing this is to ask the group a key question and look who they all turn to for the answer. It’s very similar when we [...]

Best Use of Time

Time is precious, we all know that. We all get the same amount of time each day, time is perhaps one of the few even playing fields in life. Thus how we utilise it is vital to our success and happiness. We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. – John F. [...]

Are You Stopping Money From Coming to You?

No matter what we think about money it is vital to everone’s existence. Money often gets a bad press but placed in the right hands it can do amazing things. Money is meant to be fluid, to flow from one person to another, it is not meant to be horded. “Money can’t buy you happiness [...]

Things That do not Irritate Me

They say that patience is a virtue. I couldn’t agree more, it’s just one that I dont posess, I try, I really do and I’m not making excuses BUT there are just certain things that people do that would make even a saint swear. However, this year I decided to turn over a new leaf [...]

Do You Like Clothes Shopping?

Clothes shopping is definitely a passtime that divides the sexes. Most women love it and most men hate it. Personally, I can just about tolerate it, I like OWNING new clothes but going shopping for them is a different matter. I always try-on new clothes before buying them because they can look totally different on [...]

Is Competition Good for us?

Wether we like it or not competition is all around us. It’s in the classroom, the play ground, the work place, it’s on the sports field, it’s on the high street. We are never going to get away from it so how we deal with it is obviously critical to our own personal success. Just [...]

Can People Turn Their Lives Around?

It’s the easiest thing in the world to get stuck in a rut, we’ve all done it. Practicing bad habits over a period of weeks, months and even years, then we wake up one day and think how did this happen to me? how did my life become like this? it’s not how I intended [...]