Your Life Pays You. Choose a Better Payment Plan. If you’re addicted to your current life, you don’t quit by force. You quit by replacing the...
Addiction Identity – Part 3 – The Punch
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The Blog
Articles & Observations
Writing on business, ownership, and the things nobody says out loud. No schedule. Only when there’s something worth saying.
Identity Addiction – Part 2 – The Hard Turn
You’re Not Failing Your Resolutions. You’re Addicted to Your Life. Let’s stop calling it a motivation problem. Most people don’t change because...
Addiction Identity – Part 1
Goal Setting has a fatal design flaw January 15 Is When New Year’s Resolutions Tell the Truth January 1 is hype. January 15 is feedback. 15th...
The Snowboarding Gap
How what you focus on determines what you hit — in business, in life, in everything. Some years ago, I was on my snowboard, with a guide and a small...
2015-2025… WTF just happened?
Ten Years On: What Changed for New Zealand Businesses (and What Didn’t) If you’d started a business in 2015, you were living in a different country....
Stop Problem Solving and Start Solution Creating Instead
THERE IS NO PROBLEM: WHY SOLUTIONS ARE A STATE OF BEING, NOT A REACTION "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of...
Your Better Business Pathway
How to Build a Business That’s Actually Built to Last Most small businesses don’t collapse because their idea was bad. They collapse because their...
Why I write (and what to expect)
The origin switch In 2021 the mask slipped. I stopped waiting for institutions to act like adults and accepted a simple truth: no one is coming to...
Choked by the System
Why Small Businesses Are Drowning in Tax, Debt, and Silence “A 5-Part Reality Check for NZ Business Owners Who Still Want to Win the Game — or...
The Bamboo Suit
THE PARABLE OF THE BAMBOO SUIT A simple truth hidden in plain sight: to get what you want, help others get what they need. Once, a king threw a...
Time to Wake the Hell Up
NZ Business Owners Need to Get Smarter in 2025 Right. Let’s cut through the fluff. It’s 2025. The world’s moving faster than a cat on a hot tin...
THE DAY NEW ZEALAND DIED (OF COVID)
A Personal Manifesto for Better Worlds Through Better Business “Some deaths don’t get funerals.Some just get forgotten.” I wasn’t going to share...