Category Archives: Up Close & Personal

Back To Form…And How

She's back, yes you can't keep her down for long...even with a stomach parasite, multiple mosquito bites (how on earth?!?...it's winter here), a new full-time job and running another business. Yet despite all of this, I'm out of my funk and back on fighting form...and about bloody time, if I do say so myself. First of ...

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Aaagh, I’m In A Funk!

This morning I was in a major funk. Nothing seemed positive, everything was crap and I had to gee myself up to talk to two clients on the phone for hours. To top it all off, it's still raining here in Cape Town (5th day straight) which is as depressing as hell and makes me want ...

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HK Shopping, Offshore Banking & Flat Beds

I'm sitting in our HK hotel room piggybacking off the free high speed internet they offer which we've made wireless in our room with our nifty little wireless router. It's kind of weird staying in a hotel here in HK since I've always stayed with my Dad & Gail who, rather inconsiderately now live ...

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From Entrepreneur to Employee: Going Back

If you've seen some of my recent tweets or read the latest Business Success Secrets ezine, you'll know that we're going to be spending the rest of this year in one place (South Africa)... ...which is just a little bit daunting for someone who's not been in one place for more than 3 months at a ...

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Starting and Stalling

Ack...I started my new book with gusto a few days ago (after a few months of chronic procrastination) but after 3,500 words I've now come to a crashing halt. It's just a teensy bit frustrating because I know people are waiting for it and I've had a few emails recently asking if people ...

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Establishing Successful Habits

If you read many of the books and manuals on success and by "successful" people, you'll notice a few things that set the most successful people apart from the rest. One of these is the cultivation of successful habits - activities that successful people do on a regular basis. The thing that some people don't realise ...

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Moving To The Darkside: Leaving A PC And Becoming A Mac User

Yes, as you might have read, I've gone and done it...after years of arguing the PC-side versus those annoying Mac evangelists, I've made the switch. I've never stuck up for PCs because I've thought they were better than Macs; it's more because Mac evangelists are so adamant that their Macs *never* fail them. Well, they must be ...

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Getting Priorities Right

If you've noticed that I've been a bit scarce around here recently, you're right! Our internet challenges are continuing although we're now resigned to the fact that we just have to lump it and pay for the additional usage that comes with being "heavy users". But that's not the only reason I've taken my foot off the ...

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Resisting Temptation In The Pursuit of Success and Thinking Big

Ever since we went to the *best* fish & chip shop in the Cape on Sunday, this is what I've been dreaming of... Yes, that's what happens when a former health coach & personal trainer falls off the bandwagon...they fall ...

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