Today is something of a watershed day in terms of economic support for the Australian population from the Government....
Most business owners I meet want to grow their business. It’s the best way to harness one of the key benefits of owning a business: leveraging other people’s time. The more people you have, the more jobs you can be running, and the more revenue you can earn....
Could you start at 4am to work in a cold, smelly fish market all day? What if I said those people were having the time of their lives – joking and singing and throwing fish around, and their magnetic enthusiasm has customers standing 15-deep at their stall while other fishmongers are practically empty?...
We’ve all been there. Standing around the barbie, listening to someone bang on about how little tax they pay....
As the owner, you’re the single biggest cause of your business’s success. But you’re also the biggest barrier holding it back from giving you the financial and lifestyle rewards you went into business for in the first place. Why the contradiction?...
The biggest problem I see with most businesses is also the most obvious, and in many ways the easiest to fix: the owner doesn’t have a documented plan of where the business is going that they refer to and revise....
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over my 20 year career of helping business owners build awesome businesses (and growing my own), it’s that the true secret of business success is to build a business that others want to buy – even if you don’t plan on selling any time soon....
If you want to be financially free in the future…you need to create it for yourself. Nobody is coming to save you, and nobody is going to do it for you. Remember that the idea “If it’s to be, it is up to me (you)” has never been more relevant than right now for Gen Xer’s (and everyone else) looking to fuel their future financial freedom and be in a position to cover a sustainable level of “Desired Retirement Spending” from a certain age…whether you chose to work or not....