Inspiration

Why you need a team to get more time

I’m not sure about you but I’ve really, really enjoyed the recent Bank Holiday. It’s the fourth Bank Holiday we’ve had in a couple of months and I’m just loving these long weekends. Other than taking five minutes out to respond to an urgent email, I didn’t do one single work-related task. I hear so […]

Is £199 the price of the world’s most expensive cup of coffee?

I am regularly asked whether I practice what I preach. I can tell you the answer is categorically yes. The other question I’m asked (when running three businesses) is how on earth I get done everything I need to without working 70+ hours a week.  It’s simple – I don’t have any dead time in […]

Why sometimes you need to be selfish

Hey everybody, Gary King, business mentor here. Say no to teamwork and be selfish. I’ve been working with a senior leader of a fast-growing business today and he has been struggling to hit his targets on a regular basis. The business owner is becoming increasingly frustrated that he has not been focused on the tasks […]

Why small habits mean big results

Hi everybody, Gary King business mentor here. Small habits make big change. It’s a couple of minutes short of 7am. I’ve done an hour in the gym already. And look, this is not about you need to get up at 5am and smash it at the gym and drink avocado juice all day, none of […]

What has San Francisco got to do with your business?

What has San Francisco got to do with you and your business and getting more fantastic clients? Well, I’m going to tell you. I’m here in America, traveling around five cities over two weeks, and it’s a present from my wife for my recent 50th birthday. So far we’ve done New York, we’ve done Chicago, […]

Lifestyle is driven by purpose

It’s approaching one o’clock in the afternoon. I’m just about to go in and see a client to start working on her business. I got in at quarter to four this morning after watching Leeds United play away at Swansea City last night. This was probably one of their furthest league away games, 265 miles […]

How customers can drive your offering

Why you need a business mentor – but only one who has actually run a business

The statistics on business failure are enough to take your breath away – more than half of all new businesses don’t make it to the five-year mark and ultimately 95% fail. The latest statistics from government show there were 382,000 new business births and 357,000 business deaths in 2017. And with business owners increasingly reporting that their new venture has caused […]

Take the pain out of planning – NPower Guest Blog

If the idea of business planning makes you break out in a cold sweat, or your business plan is more of a historic artefact that you took along to the bank once upon a time now gathering dust on a shelf somewhere – don’t worry, you’re not alone. According to research by the Centre for […]