[If you like this content - join the FREE Growth Factor Group]. This video is about the importance of being us and comparing ourselves only to a previous version of ourselves and to the version of ourselves we want to become. It overlaps with the concept of being competitive. I've done sports since I was a…
Mandy Len Catron wrote an essay about these. It's called “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This,”. Mandy's piece is based on a study conducted by the psychologist Arthur Aron which looks at whether closeness between two strangers can be accelerated 36 specific questions. These 36 questions are divided into three sets, each…
How do you apply gratitude in real practice? We hear personal development gurus talk about gratitude a lot. But what does it really mean? Is it enough to close our eyes and think about what we’re grateful for? What does it do? What actually happens when we do this apart from whatever effect it…
If we want to do more, we need to find more resources and typically these include time and productivity. We must find more time in our days and weeks and get more out of each day. Or so it'd seem. Lack of time is one of the top ‘reasons’ (excuses) for people not chasing…
Public speaking is an act, not in the sense that the speakers are acting, but more in the sense that they are performing. A common belief is that when people book a speaker, that speaker’s job is to speak about what they know and deliver good content. Speakers are expected to do more than…
What brand is represented in the picture below, the one with the goats? It’s got nothing to do with dairy, or food of any sort. It's Google. In the US, as part of their green initiative, Google rents goats to mow the lawn in their Mountain View HQ. Now, that is remarkable. Zappos, the…
On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the growth potential that you want to achieve a couple of years from now in your business, personal life, relationships, fitness, or anything else, and one is where you haven't started yet, where are you right now? For reference, five could be where you…
I give talks regularly, about marketing, business growth, culture and more. The topic of motivation is always requested and when we address it, people lean in and eyes get wider. People want to know, but they also want to understand how to implement strategies to motivate ourselves and our teams. In this article, we…
A few years ago I had a meeting with one of our large customers to tell them that we should move from a performance-only charging model, whereby they paid us according to the performance we drove, to a fixed retainer. My new proposal meant the double digit monthly fee they paid us, was going…
This is a chapter from my book, THE AGENCY. You can download three chapters FREE here. What do you do? If you have your big WHY, now you need your big WHAT. I know that most of you reading this probably feel there are tens of elements about your agency that are important to…