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Managing Your Business in a Crazy World, 3

Your brand is not what was decided at the off-site in Paris nor Orlando. It's what happens when you Google/Bing it. It's what is said when you over-hear two people in the queue for the plane referring to your product or service. It's how your own people refer to the business they work for.

Brand is organic, needs TLC and above all regular conversation with the customer to discover the truth.

Always more help and guidance. Being the Best. Meet Molly. 

It’s a Crazy World but….

1. No publisher is (necessarily) needed for your work. Self-publish on line and the markets will decide. And avoid the sensitivity editor. 
2. As markets continue to fragment (from coffee to holidays to financial services) there are incredible opportunities for increasingly niche players.
3. Awesome technology at our finger-tips means debilitating commuting needn't/shouldn't be a part of our day. Learn and understand ChatGPT possibilities and threats.
4. Intelligence on fitness, exercise and enabling wellness is better than ever before.
5. Social media and robotics may be blossoming but there is nothing like a real person to speak to when you need help.
6. Agility is the new differentiator. For you. For a firm. Learn. Absorb. Interpret. Adjust. Repeat. 
7. Barriers to entry have dropped everywhere. But that has allowed a lot of 'OK'. Excellence allows you to say in the ring and outperform the competitors. And excellence starts with a decision. 

Always more help and guidance. Being the Best. Meet Molly. 

Saturday Secrets of Success

The Secrets of Success, handy downloadable PDF, free.

Managing Your Business in a Crazy World, 2

Make price the smallest issue.

Build value, explain benefits, deliver to plan, create an extraordinary reputation.

It’s very hard to build a profitable business on low price alone. 

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Mid-Feb? You can still have goals.

1. The Year you finally escape the urban jungle and return to your Hunter-Gatherer roots.
2. The year of hiking.
3. The Year of Good Mood Consistently by walking, returning to nature and having great play-lists.
4. The year of cooking. No take-aways, no ready meals. No deliveroo. 
5. The Year you read. Oh man, do you read.
6. The year where good humour keeps stress, colds and weak economies at bay. 
7. The year you realise success is not a simple correlation with qualifications.
8. The year of sorting out your posture, your breathing and your nutrition in world of chair, pc and no lunch-break.
9. The year you re-gain time.
10. The year you become a gardener, an artist, a writer, a potter, an entrepreneur. 
11. The year you finally get fit.
12. The year you re-realise you can do anything but you can't do everything. And you let go...
13. The year you take 30 minutes to list what is important to you. And then spend time according to what is important. Not what is simply urgent.
14. The year of TLC
15. The year of enough sleep and regular naps.
16. The year you become unstoppable.
17. The year of looking up and walking tall. 
18. The year of what’s my word?
19. The year you tackle the F word.
20. The year of step by step.
21. The year you finally use that note-book.
22. Being the Best, the 26 step definitive primer.

Managing Your Business in a Crazy World, 1

Absolute certainty for a business is difficult to achieve. The definitive long-term plan an impossibility. But agility, now that's within a firm's grasp. What a differentiator. 

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On Writing, 61

Personal therapy on a budget.

In tricky times, go write. 

Don’t worry. Just write.

The List

Who else would like to get a glimpse of Michael Wade’s

The List?

Me for one. 

Monday’s Equations, 7

(1) innovation=creativity+action (2) work in+lag=results out (3) EQ (emotional intelligence)=2xIQ (4) wellness=M(meditation)xE(exercise)xD(diet)xS(sleep) (5) communication is joined up; bullets are not joined up; PowerPoint is not communication (6) important activities which are also  investing > important activities which are simply urgent (7) love beats all.