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Why skipping a work session and playing catch up starts you on the road to ruin.

What you measure gets managed. At the start of Operation Scrumstyle, the daily stand-up has focused on the tasks the team has been doing. We look at what they did yesterday and what they plan on doing today. This is classic Agile/Scrum Approach. Trouble is, there is something I’ve started to notice and I want…

You’re Accountable Everywhere But Here…

Ask any coach of coaches, one of the first things they’ll teach you is accountability is the third rail of coaching. Touch it and your career will be short and painful. Your clients will say they desperately want accountability but the moment you start holding them to account they slip straight into “I forgot my…

War Of Art – Get It In Your Ears

I was forty floors above Tokyo, It was a clear day, I could see Mt Fuji… Or I could see it if I wasn’t crying. Look, I’m emotionally crippled, I don’t cry at much and certainly not publicly. However, on that beautiful autumn day. I was sobbing into my now going cold breakfast. The cause,…

If You Can’t Name It, You Can’t Build It

So for the next six months I’m acting as ScrumMaster for 30 odd crazy souls. It’s going to be interesting! My job as Scrum Master is not to look at what they are doing or advising tactics and strategies. Our focus is on the underlying systems which will determine their success or failure over the…

Using Virtual Summits To Start Your Business?

I have to say I did not think a virtual summit would be a way to create your first product. Liam Austin convinced me otherwise! I get all the key questions asked – How do you get people to speak at your virtual summit if they’ve never heard of you and have no list. What…

Mentoring 4.0 – March 2019

A few years ago, I took on my first mentoring students. What a trip. Helping people take the next step in a business (regardless of if they were starting from scratch or already well entrenched in business) was a joy. I had no idea how it was going to work out. I learn’t so much…

Bugger It – I’ll do it live

The replay is up!!!!! It Starts at 26:51 – there was a bunch of testing beforehand which I’ll edit out but I wanted to get it to you ASAP Make sure you register at the workshop at this link so you can get the workbook and follow along with me Here is the link to…

THE NEW CHALLENGE #WAXONWAXOFF

The New  Challenge starts again on July 1 at 8pm Eastern USA time Head over to this link for the opening workshop and be prepared to work. 🙂 #WAXONWAXOFF

The January Effect

One of my favorite things is discovering tools and techniques which at first glance will have a negative effect BUT when you do them, they have a super positive effect. For example • Putting butter, coffee and coconut oil helps you loose weight – BulletProof Coffee • Put all your eggs in one basket and…

Every Single Day

Most of you are not measuring the key metrics for your business (and your life) every. single. day. In the magnificent book Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength , which I highly recommend you read. The book points out there is only one thing in all the diet studies in existence that has a direct…