Live in the now!

So a friend and I were chatting on Whatsapp a while ago.  She was commiserating leaving her holiday location to come home and face a week back at work.  Back to reality….  I typed in the comment in the picture and then was stuck by it.  Very impressed with myself for coming up with it…

Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur or Business Person

Which of these words best describes you? Entre-pre-neur;  Persons who see need, and/or opportunities in the market and find way to meet an fill those needs and opportunities in a profitable way, and take the risk to do it. Intra-pre-neur; Person within an organisation who is given the freedom and resources to initiate projects, business ventures…

Leading on Purpose

“Many plans are in a man’s mind; but it is God’s purpose for him that will stand” Psalm 19:21 Two things this week__ both provoked by great articles that I have read.                                        One about fighting the…

Growth Requires Strategy

We all want to grow but for most of us, growth creates uncertainty and uncertainty is uncomfortable.  Growth happens outside of our comfort zone.  It requires us to risk, to take the leap of faith.  As the human race our focus is often on how we can be as comfortable as possible.  We don’t really…

Momentum

Momentum is described by the dictionary as “the strength or force that allows something to continue to grow stronger or faster as time passes.”  Running a business is hard. It requires a great amount of energy to achieve real results.  It also takes time, money, intellect, spiritual focus and perseverance to truly succeed. The early…

GRIT

  What does it really take to succeed? What do successful people have that others do not have? Imagine if you knew how many asks it would take to get a “yes”, or how many knocks it would take for the door to open, or how many tries it would take to succeed? It would…

The Essential P’s of Marketing

  As leaders in business we often know where we are going (i.e. company vision) and we have a good handle on our numbers (i.e. profit/loss statement, balance sheet, cashflow) however it seems many of us are deficient in marketing. The vision may be, for example, the annual dollar turnover of our business in five…

The Competitive advantage

For the past few weeks  the Business Edge team has been working on producing a format and student workbook for a teaching and coaching event we have called “BOOST”.  Boost is designed as a short, sharp shot of positive, practical learning and development to help you on your way to becoming a mighty force for good and…

Be Free

As we start another busy week – I’m sure you have many questions running through your head – Will that deal come through? Will I finally be able to get to that task that I’ve been putting off for weeks? Is this the week for breakthrough in my business?? And the questions go on…..however, I’ve…

Leaning in!

Are you leaning into your dreams?  Are you leaning into your life goals?  Are you leaning into your relationships?  Are you leaning in or are you leaning out? As a whole most of us are pain and risk adverse, we would love to avoid pain and suffering, even discomfort, at all costs.  So when things…