Health Check Tuesday: Back to Basics
What are the numbers that matter in your business? Let’s start with profit. Did you know that there are a few different ways that business owners think about “profits”? Here are 3 to get us started: Gross profit = the amount remaining from sales after you deduct the total cost of production. It is always […]
Fable of the Porcupine
Fable of the Porcupine It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions. After awhile, they decided to distance themselves one from […]
Honey, I burnt the toast!
A friend sent me this story …. Burned Biscuits When I was a kid, my Mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my Mom placed a plate […]
$17 000 000 that’s $17 million – is any of it yours?
Health Check Tuesday; your Personal Finances There’s more than $17 billion in lost super out there and some of it could be yours! Many people have lost track of their superannuation. If you’ve ever changed your name, changed your address or changed jobs – and most of us have at least once – you may […]
Have Faith
Why? Try a little experiment: in your mind or out loud, complete this sentence a few times: “I have faith in _________.” Then complete another sentence a few times: “I have no faith in ________.” What do faith – and no faith – feel like? In your experience of faith, there’s probably a sense of […]
Avocado – fruit or vegetable?
Health Check Tuesday: The facts about avocado and potassium. We know we need to eat Potassium and if you think bananas have cornered the market on potassium, you’d be sadly mistaken. The 487 milligrams provided by a large banana pales in comparison to the output of the avocado. Just one of them delivers a full […]
The Crow and the Coconut
“In the extraordinary Yogic text called the ‘Yoga [Vasistha’], written several thousand years ago, the story is told of the crow and the coconut… A crow alights on a coconut tree and at the very same moment, by chance, a ripe coconut falls. These two unrelated events seem to be related in time and space, […]
Do you know your 5 x tables?
Welcome to Health Check Tuesday Living in inner Sydney I didn’t ever expect to have a local brewery producing very fine beers, ales and cider. Late last Saturday afternoon we wandered over for a drink. There were about 75 people in their “bar” area; all ages and appeared to be lots of locals. The beer […]
Did you know that your brain has a Negativity Bias?
This is a repost from Margaret Munoz You know that bad news sells. It is negative events that attract saturation coverage, interruption of usual TV programming and wall to feature stories in the papers. But why? It’s a matter of evolution and our drive to survive. Neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, author of “Buddha’s Brain” tells us […]