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I’ll admit it without shame, I love the classic 80s television show Cheers. One of my favourite characters is Woody, the lovable, if a …

Let’s set the scene of my most recent blog…We are in Cusco, Peru. Imagine a dusty back alley, intricate stone walls, the most vibrant co…

One of my businesses, Elephant Property, works in the notoriously underappreciated category of residential property management. The old adag…

I had an amazing service experience last week. A person was coming out to my house to quote me for an installation we want to have don…

I spent the last two days at a great real estate conference AREC and as I always do, I spent a good deal of time looking around the trade st…

Thanks to the number of people who asked me to blog on this topic. Starting their own business seems to be a dream for many, realised by few…

My answer, blunt as it might be: You don’t want them to think like you! Twenty “you’s” running around your office with the same ideas, …

So, I was being organised this morning and pre-writing some of my blogs. Yes, shock horror, I don’t sit down and write them each and every w…

I’m a pretty motivated person. Often I’ll get asked how I got “so motivated” and how I “maintain it”. These sorts of questions usually l…

When you’re in “the zone” (the business zone that is) business lessons abound as you go through your everyday life. The horrid service …

It’s easy enough to impress me (and most people). Just do a little extra on top of my expectations and my previous experiences. A hotel…

This is my friend Hussein. We met in Siwa – a tiny desert oasis in the North West of Egypt. After one meeting we went from being stran…