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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 they’re not trying hard enough.They don’t change because their current life is paying them. That’s what addiction is: a...
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 March is reality check time! Now, we're in the final weeks of the end of the financial year. By now, most New Year’s...
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 group of similarly skilled boarders, about to head into a grove of alpine trees. It wasn’t a groomed trail. There was...
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. Not just economically, but socially, technologically, and mentally. Back then, the buzzwords were innovation, growth,...
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 doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." – Charles Bukowski PROBLEMS ARE EVERYWHERE… OR ARE THEY? We live in a...
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 foundations were weak. They were never built to last. Never built to adapt. Never built to reward the people building...
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 save us (my reality check story is HERE). If we want better health, education, business, or government outcomes, we’ll...
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 Redesign It” 1. Govt Turns on Small Businesses After Feeding Them Poisoned Candy The IRD’s tax crackdown isn’t about...
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 feast. The only rule? Everyone had to wear a rigid bamboo suit—no bending allowed. The rich came. The wise came. All left...
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 roof, and too many Kiwi business owners are still treating their businesses like it's 1998 with a fax machine and a dream....
