It took a significant accumulation of social drinking in the months (yes, months) up to Christmas and New Year to convince me that Dry...

My lunchtime bike ride yesterday had taken me no further than 3 miles from home when I suffered my first puncture of the year outside...

Great clients bring out the best in themselves. Let me share with you an example from yesterday. I met with Neil Harris at HRS Dental...

A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been...

Good morning – it really is good to be back after the FivegoForth Land’s End to John O’Groats charity bike ride. I’m already getting the...

I’m leaving home at 09:00 this morning to meet Ashley Latter at Manchester’s Piccadilly station and begin our train journey to Penzance,...

Confidence isn’t a state of mind that one acquires after becoming successful. Confidence is a verb – it’s a behaviour that we have to get...

Whether it’s a failed business, marriage, exam or physical challenge – the reality is that something is going to go wrong at some time....

Well I haven’t won the lottery (which may have something to do with not having bought a ticket, rather than my iPhone not listening to...

Before we start – this is a story about a truly awful hotel – but it’s important to understand that nobody is to blame. When you travel...

There’s something very humbling about feeling nervous before a new workshop begins. I know the material inside out but, no matter how...

A very good afternoon from my apartment in Zetland, a southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, where I’ll be based until...

I’m back after a week in Greece, batteries fully charged and ready for The Extreme Business programme – workshop 3 in London today and...

Monday morning and my second full day in The Bunker, working 80% ON the business and 20% IN the business, having sacrificed my Sunday to...

I want to take you back to September 1970. I’m a few days away from my 17th birthday. It’s my first day at my very first full-time paid...

As if there weren’t enough conferences, study clubs, post-graduate courses and overseas jollies for us to attend, I’m here at...

Two taxi driver stories from the Practice Plan Club Weekend in Benidorm. The first unnamed hero picked up my son Jon Barrow, who had...

There comes a point in our evolution as owners when we run out of time to Get Things Done. Equally, there will be a time when we run out...

There’s a brand new free download in the Resources/Infographics section of my web site this morning – but I’m also including a further...

Today is the last day at work for my trusted business manager Phillippa Goodwin. Don’t panic! She’s off to walk the Camino Trail in...