What are you reading ? What are you thinking about?
I have just returned from a quick trip to Melbourne for a Sales Training Day, which was Fabulous – more later. I truly love flying and for a couple of reasons. I always feel excited at the prospect of being 33 000 feet above the earth; what a true engineering feat. Also traveling time is […]
Celebrating the wins. It’s almost the end of June & the end of the Financial yea...
Celebrating the win. These fireworks were exploding over Sydney Harbour one night last week just as we walked out of the Concert Hall at the Opera House. This was the same night as the State of Origin and NSW won, so lovely blue fireworks. A celebration. As you reflect on the year just passed What […]
My Lessons learned from Lean StartUp Movement
For many years I have been a fan of the Lean StartUp Movement In simple terms it is: create a prototype and get it out there so clients and customers can start using it. “Launch, Learn and Re-Launch” This can be quite scary for some people, especially the perfectionists reading this. Perfectionists are people who […]
How long could you live without any income?
I was reading the newsletter from an amazing organisation called “Fitted for Work”. Part of their mission is to “help women gain the self-esteem and confidence to secure their goal of sustainable employment” through providing a wide range of services from interview skills and resume writing to actually assisting with a new wardrobe of clothes […]
Do women feel the cold more than men?
One of the things I love about having a business named Healthy Numbers is that I can include all kinds of interesting information in my Health Check Tuesday segment and it still relates to Healthy Numbers. The first Tuesday of each month I try to pay attention to a Healthy Number relating to our personal […]
Business Lessons learned from Surfing
A friend of mine is setting up a series of yoga/ surf/ healthy lifestyle retreats and he was running a Pilot/ Trial so I spent the weekend in North NSW doing yoga and learning to surf and I am still feeling energized from being in the foamy surf and am feeling really motivated by being […]
“It’s not my designer shoes ….” Getting a grip on your expenses
Yesterday I was working with a new client looking at Cash Flow in her business. As we were working through the Numbers, Sarah (not her real name) realised that she doesn’t know how much it costs to run her business on a daily or weekly basis. One of Sarah’s other issues is that she doesn’t […]
Measure the incremental differences to uncover the important story
“It’s only 3 kilos, that’s nothing!” he said to me … what did he know? A strange and interesting thing happened to me last week. Some Wednesdays, I work with a corporate client and last week they were having a “Safety Week” event that included information from Weight Watchers and one of the leading health […]
The Hoopla used to be free content online, now there is a fee. How will this change their a...
Have you read The Hoopla? Started by Wendy Harmer and Jane Waterhouse, The Hoopla is an “online magazine” as described by Wendy Harmer at the Sydney Writers’ Festival last year during an extremely informative panel discussion with Adele Horin and Anne Summers and moderated by Monica Attard. Each of these amazing women are involved in […]