This month I celebrate 15 years of leading a business coaching practice. 15 years of supporting people, mostly small business owners, to have a bigger life than one where they think about work just about all day, almost every day if not every day. And I know this because I have my own data. Over [...]
Firstly I hope this finds you and yours starting 2021 safe and well with thoughts for a fresh start but being mindful to remember aspects of last year rather than wanting to bury it all never to be spoken of again. If you were to select a song to describe 2020 as a place marker [...]
Last week this happened. An intimate group of business owners stopped what they would normally do on a Wednesday to pause, reflect and plan. We call it the PEPP®pause and PEPP® stands for Purpose + Energy + Pleasure + Profit. It’s how we all “do” business and life because we all want more vitality. [...]
PEPP® When I trademarked PEPP® as a word a few years ago, to mean Purpose, Energy, Pleasure and Profit, whilst saying anyone could put the words in any order they like, I deliberately put “Purpose” ahead of “Profit” in the order I regularly say them. Because to not do so inhibits our ability to [...]
Living without some sort of a plan is like starting the engine of your car and not knowing where you’re driving to. In my world, “plan” is one of the words I’ve selected as an extension of “Purpose”, which is a fundamental in PEPP® – Purpose, Energy, Pleasure and Profit and fundamental to live with [...]
Because I wanted to have some Friday FUN, and tomorrow is “World Flamingo Day”, yes that really is a thing (recognised on 23rd June since 2007), I thought I’d share some random thoughts about PEPP® (Purpose – Energy – Pleasure – Profit) and Flamingos. I’ve loved flamingos for many years perhaps because they are [...]
