It’s not my circus and they are certainly not my flaming monkeys.
For some reason every time I turn around I seem to be running into this wonderful Polish proverb, “it’s not my circus, they aren’t my monkeys”. There seems to be some debate about what it actually means, but I like to think of it as – I didn’t break it, I’m sure as hell not going to fix it.
Over the years I have spent a lot of my career running around fixing other people’s business issues. Typically these were small businesses, which had ended up in all kinds of trouble, to the point where they were staring down the barrel of bankruptcy (or jail).
There was an upside of course, there was never a shortage of businesses facing issues like this. The downside was always a huge amount of chaos, angst and stress. The more problems I was trying to fix the more chaos, angst and stress I had to cope with. READ MORE
It’s that time of year again, end of financial year is around the corner and most business owners start to groan, thinking about the extra things we need to do to finish the year off. It is all about compliance, compliance, compliance.
I think we need to look at the end of the financial year in a totally different way. We need to consider it to be the opportunity that it really is. With a little reprogramming we can actually learn to profit from the end of financial year instead of dread it.
To prove my point, I am teaming up with one of Australia’s top business coaches, Mr Sam Harrop, for a free, one hour webinar on the topic. In this webinar Sam and I will share 5 strategies to ensure that your business profits from the end of the financial year in some unusual ways.
To find out more, simply click on the banner below (and remember, if you can’t make the webinar live, remember to register anyway and you will get a link emailed to you so you can watch the recorded version as soon as it goes live).
(Oh did I mention we will also be talking about a competition that could win you a $15,000 IT makeover for your business)…..
Recently I had the great pleasure of officially becoming a Flying Solo Expert Contributor. My first few articles are focused on working with the media. My second article in the series is all about understanding the most common media interview mistakes and what you can do about them. To have a read, CLICK HERE.
Having just launched KPI in Singapore last week, the programme continues to gain enormous momentum. Now we are running in 7 cities globally and in the Huff Post, the KPI programme was recently called “the world’s leading personal brand accelerator”.
For more information about the next round of Brand Accelerators, which are happening from next month – CLICK HERE
In the meantime, enjoy our new Hollywood Blockbuster poster…..could there be an Oscar on the way???
I just joined the Dollar Photo Club thanks to a recommendation from a friend. It is only $10 a month for membership, which includes your first 10 images, and after that, $1 an image. You gotta love that. Click on the image below for more information.
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