Looking for inspiration or to ways build your business skills? You can’t beat a great book! These must read books for entrepreneurs will help you discover more about the psychology of marketing, tweak your mindset and enhance your leadership skills. These are the business books I love, recommend and buy for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Have you ever had one of those blinding flashes of insight? The sort of thing where nothing around you looks the same ever again? At the beginning of each year, I think back over my clients, alliance partners, speaking audiences and colleagues from the previous year....

"I am super busy. Every day I mean to get onto getting my website sorted and marketing my business, but I spend each day fighting fires, and it never gets done. How do I find the time to market and still do the work?" I was having a mentoring session with a brilliant...

Morning team huddle: Can you start over again after losing everything in your business? History says, "YES!" In this chat we talk about Sylvan Goldman, an entrepreneur who invented the shopping trolley after the 1929 stock market crash took everything he had, and...

Show Notes: For those who prefer to read rather than watch Yesterday we talked about one of the strategies for reducing overwhelm in your business, which was dealing with your Incompletes and your Messes to try and get some mental bandwidth happening. Today we're...

Show Notes: For those who prefer to read rather than watch In previous days, we focused mainly on helping you to understand why you're feeling the way you're feeling during the pandemic. We looked at why you've been feeling exhausted, and why you find yourself acting...

Show Notes: For those who prefer to read rather than watch  Who else has been seeing the memes doing the rounds about all the things that Shakespeare created during the great plague, and the discoveries Newton found during the plague? So much pressure! I'm now...

Today we're going to talk about something that a lot of people are saying, "I'm freaking exhausted. Why am I so exhausted?" The reason is there are actually two things happening for you psychologically. First one is Learning Fatigue. I want you to think back a little...

Show Notes: For those who prefer to read rather than watch Today we're going to talk about bravery. I want to start by telling you about this amazing woman I met a few years ago. Her name's Claire Clifton, and she is a very talented artist with her business...

Show Notes: For those who prefer to read rather than watch Today we're going to talk about jigsaws. The other day the Australian Prime Minister, when he was discussing the stimulus package, explained how jigsaws are one of life's essentials. I agree wholeheartedly...

Show Notes: For those who prefer to read rather than watch Today we're going to be looking at some behavioural impacts of the pandemic because a lot of my colleagues and clients are telling me that they're finding themselves emotionally acting out in unusual ways and...

Show Notes: For those who prefer to read rather than watch Last week I was on a Zoom meeting for a local community group, and there were a lot of small business people at the meeting. Some were doing fine with their business, others had lost their job, and they were...

People are naturally frightened of what the coming months are going to bring with the Coronavirus. There is so much that is unknown about COVID-19 that people’s imaginations and fears are working overtime Horror movies work best when the scary thing is hidden in...

With the Coronavirus (COVID-19), officially being declared a pandemic by WHO, people are naturally fearful and uncertain what it means.  While a lot is still unknown, what is known is that it will impact every small business in Australia in the coming months: whether...

The end of a year (and the end of a decade) can be particularly poignant. Part of what makes us human calls to look back on the year to see what the heck just happened, and to try and get a plan together for the coming year. Whether we look back and plan in a...

This article first appeared at Flying Solo. Ask any solopreneur or freelancer their number one problem, and they will ashamedly mutter, “I am not great at getting a steady stream of clients. The stress of constantly seeking out new clients is almost overwhelming.”...

This post first appeared on Flying Solo. Have you ever woken up with an intensely brilliant idea for your business? One that makes your heartbeat just a bit faster, and your mind start to wander into seeing your adoring accountant fawning over your quadrupled revenue?...

“What do you mean they want a photograph of each of the Executive team members doing their hobby in the Annual Report? Work IS my hobby!” I was sitting across a mile-wide desk from a shocked grey-suited senior executive who was leaning back in his black leather chair....