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Building a Profitable Business is Not a Race to the Finish Line
Great things are not built in one giant leap – it’s built through the power of incremental steps. You can achieve your dream lifestyle through your business, and that requires making reliable profits. But dreams take time to come to fruition and call for patience,...
Why Making Profit is a Good Thing
Let’s talk about profit. Do you feel uncomfortable already? How about ‘sales’ or ‘revenue’ – are those easier to deal with instead? It’s interesting how words can be loaded with a negative association. Too often, the media’s unsavoury portrayal of profit makes it a...
Do You Have a Reciprocal Relationship with Your Staff?
The best relationships in life are reciprocal – and that counts for the workplace as well. When you help your employees to achieve their dreams, they in turn help you to achieve yours. In the last few years, businesses have been put through the wringer, and on top of...
What Kind of Support Is Available during Omicron?
1 February 2022, the government announced another range of financial support schemes to help businesses through the Omicron outbreak. Here are the highlights of these schemes, as well as a reminder that your SBCS loan may be repayable soon, if applicable. ...
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Penny for your thoughts? Actually, they’re worth a lot more! Continual innovation and big-picture thinking is the hallmark of the entrepreneurial spirit and every business owner's success. How you think about your business has a powerful impact on how you ultimately...
Ten Tips to Improve Your Habits, and Your Business
Your habits are running your life – make sure they're good ones! We talk a lot about using your business as a tool to create the lifestyle you desire. Knowing where you want to go and creating a solid roadmap to get there is only the first step, albeit a very...
Limitation of Interest on Residential Property and a ‘New Build’ Definition
You may remember the bomb that the government dropped on us back in March: Interest expenses you may deduct from residential rental property will now be limited and the period for the bright-line rule is extended. They’ve taken a few months to suss out the details,...
How to Build an Effective Management System
After a tough year, it’s often challenging to keep the spirits up and keep your employees motivated and productive. We see this trend every year, and usually it passes – once the team is back from their summer break, their spirits are high and they’re eager to work...
Why You Need to Work On Your Business – Not In It
Are you micro-managing every piece of your business? If so, you probably can’t see the forest for the trees – the bigger picture, instead of all the small details. As the business owner or CEO, your job is to look ahead, imagine what your business can become, work out...
The Art of Asking the Right Questions
Your team is only as strong as the questions you ask If you’ve ever been in charge of training people, you may have had moments where you get frustrated with the pace people are learning at, or that you often have to repeat yourself. Maybe these thoughts sound...
Why You Don’t Need a 101-Point Plan of Action
When Sir William Wallace got onto his horse and gathered an army of everyday Scotts willing to bet everything – including their lives – on the vision he had, he did not waste time with a 101-point-plan-of-action. He inspired them with a simple message that caught fire...
Life Goal #3: Building a Legacy
We’re taking you back to school with a fun little multiple choice question: What is most important to you? Keeping abreast with fads and trends Building something of lasting value and impact For us, we’d choose to create a legacy every time. And we suspect you do...
The Unexpected New Burden on Landlords
On 23 March 2021, the government threw us a curveball no one saw coming. They proposed some major tax changes which they believe would fix the housing market and slow down house price increases. However, these changes will have a major impact on landlords. The...
Your Impact Manifesto and the Role of Your Business in the World
What do you remember most from your grandparents? Maybe it’s the life lessons they taught you, the tears they wiped after your cousin said something nasty to you, or when they encouraged you to get back up again after you fell. Maybe they taught you to have fun and...