Hello, my name is Graham and I am an activityholic. I was asked the question at the weekend, what are your hobbies? After stopping laughing I had a few thoughts but the first was the following.
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Entrepreneur Thoughts
Hobbies? Do Me A Favour I Have Three Kids
Woody Allen Told Me To Turn Up
I have been thinking about how things have changed in my life recently and realised something that I have known intuitively all along but maybe hadn't put all of the things together into a coherent whole. Now I can't remember the exact percentage but I believe that Woody Allen once said that 90% of...
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Check Moves – What Are They?
I had some interesting questions directed to me on the basis of the last post on Check Move Theory and as a result have tried to clarify in this video what constitutes a check move. Now, it depends on the business you are in how many check moves you may need before the customer...
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The Low Information Diet – How To Beat Anxiety
Again we start with Tim Ferriss' affirmation that you don't need to know everything about everything. I used to be a news junkie. I have opinions about everything and can usually argue my case when I want to about things that are going on in the world. However I don't follow the news any...
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The Entrepreneur Definition
How would you define an entrepreneur? Essentially an entrepreneur is somebody who starts up a business, but not everyone who starts up a business can really be called an entrepreneur. The Entrepreneurship Definition is a bit more complex than that.
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Do You Love What You Do? So Why Do It?
If you have ever got into self help you will know that the Gurus always advise you to "Live with Passion" as Tony Robbins says. They say you should be passionate about what you do. I prefer to ask if you really love what you do? Does it inspire you daily?
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How Do You Become The Google Of Your Market?
Living in Spain is rather strange at times. I have said before in these pages that Spanish life is rather conformist, what one person does successfully everybody else follows in general. Successful estate agents beget copycat models, and the same can be said of academies, theme bars, delicatessens and a huge etcetera. Google is...
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Subconscious Lifestyle Design From An Early Age
I was reading a post on Lifestyle Design for You from my online mate Gordie Rogers the other day and it got me thinking. His question was whether Lifestyle Design was dead. If you are not sure what lifestyle design is by now then read on. The comments and debate were interesting because Lifestyle...
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100,000 Euros in an Escrow Account? WTF!!
If you are from Europe, Spain is close by. Any specifics you need done or found out can be part of a brief holiday. From New Zealand, things get much more complicated, and I have been discovering this time and again.
Our biggest hurdle to date in our planning had been determining how much...
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The Black Economy in Spain
A report has just been leaked to the press that the black economy in Spain now makes up 23.3% of all transactions. This means that a quarter of the economy in Spain doesn't show up on the official figures for the size of the GDP for example. The figure is 5% higher than a...
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