It is important to be extremely selfish with your time and attention. Yes, you read that right. You cannot afford to give everybody and every project tossed in your direction some of your limited time and attention. If you are …
Jeff Bezos was briefly the world’s richest person….
In case you were not listening, yesterday, July 27, 2017, Jeff Bezos was for a few hours the richest man in the world. That’s right; he toppled Bill Gates. Shares of Amazon.com, a company Bezos started in 1994 to sell …
Excellent services at low prices?
Some newbie Entrepreneurs are always thinking they can deliver excellent, high quality services at low prices. While there may be no theoretical grounds to rule it out… In my experience, I can tell. Aiming to be the lowest prices in …
On your toes!
The best kind of people to keep around are the folks that keep you on your toes. Those people that challenge you to give your 300% into whatever it is you do. I got this email yesterday from a friend …
The magic of small, consistent improvement
At a recent entrepreneurship session I facilitated, I asked the attendees a simple question: if I started a crappy business today and commit to making small improvements to it, consistently, every single day, 30 years down the line… what would …
The loafy upsell
I spotted a Shoprite Bread vendor in the wild and stopped by to “grab my copy” of their bread, to my surprise (and delight), out of nowhere the vendor brought out a 2L bottle of coke and suggested I buy …
Same package. Different perceived value
You can have something of value, yet people think it is worthless. You can be doing exactly the same thing as 5 other people, yet they keep selling out while you keep racking up losses. You have to realise that …
Work output
You can’t make more money than your work output permits…. If you can only work on one 6-figure project every week… your path to becoming really “financially free” is a long thing! The other day, I needed minor carpentry repairs …
Money is the easiest thing to make – do this first
Many people struggle to make money. I am sure you have also noticed this. People going all out, hustling 24/7, just to make ends meet and then maybe make a little extra so that they can take a little vacation …
The work we really do
A few days ago, one of my interns asked me why our week could not be more “well structured” with very very clearly defined themes for each day and all that. I smiled. He had a point, now, its not …