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Why do we find it so difficult to get started on the things that are good for us?
It took a significant accumulation of social drinking in the months (yes, months) up to Christmas and New Year to convince me that Dry...
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Chris Barrow
Jan 9, 2019
A flat tyre and a Good Samaritan
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...
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Chris Barrow
Dec 7, 2018
The One-Page 2019 Impact Plan
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...
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Chris Barrow
Oct 23, 2018
Reflections on journalling
A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been...
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Chris Barrow
Sep 25, 2018
On being back after a life-enhancing experience
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...
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Chris Barrow
Sep 7, 2018
A long and winding road
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,...
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Chris Barrow
Sep 6, 2018
No matter how you feel – it’s showtime!
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...
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Chris Barrow
Sep 4, 2018
Starting again (knowing what you know now)
Whether it’s a failed business, marriage, exam or physical challenge – the reality is that something is going to go wrong at some time....
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Chris Barrow
Aug 24, 2018
A Friday Riff on snooping, lost baggage, my TV career and digital advertising
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...
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Chris Barrow
Aug 15, 2018
The Australia Diary – Day 8 – things don’t always go according to plan
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...
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Chris Barrow
Aug 10, 2018
The Australia Diary – day 4 – marketing restrictions and the 35% associate
There’s something very humbling about feeling nervous before a new workshop begins. I know the material inside out but, no matter how...
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Chris Barrow
Aug 7, 2018
G’Day – my first day in Australia
A very good afternoon from my apartment in Zetland, a southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, where I’ll be based until...
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Chris Barrow
Jul 9, 2018
Lessons from a Greek island – a riff on getting back from holiday
I’m back after a week in Greece, batteries fully charged and ready for The Extreme Business programme – workshop 3 in London today and...
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Chris Barrow
Jun 25, 2018
It’s almost half-time in 2018 – are you focused?
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...
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Chris Barrow
Jun 20, 2018
How Mr. David Stewart taught me a lesson about boundaries in 1970
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...
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Chris Barrow
Jun 15, 2018
I’m just about to meet some of the 20% of dentists who attend 80% of conferences
As if there weren’t enough conferences, study clubs, post-graduate courses and overseas jollies for us to attend, I’m here at...
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Chris Barrow
Jun 12, 2018
Random Acts of Kindness in Benidorm
Two taxi driver stories from the Practice Plan Club Weekend in Benidorm. The first unnamed hero picked up my son Jon Barrow, who had...
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Chris Barrow
Jun 7, 2018
“HOW” to “WHO” – the biggest step you can take in growing your business
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...
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Chris Barrow
May 23, 2018
The Unique Ability Exercise – a free download
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...
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Chris Barrow
Apr 13, 2018
How to surround yourself with great people – it’s easier than you think
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...
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