I’m on a train right now, as I write this, going into Edinburgh for our in-person PF team get together. It’s always good fun to get together with the team (who are usually remote and communicating via Slack and video), and the sun is shining, and the skies are blue. A nice change from Storm
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Last week my accountant said something that has stuck with me – and come back to me – every day since he said it. I traveled, attended a lot of events, met amazing people and re-connected with ones i knew already, had new business opportunities… and yet the one thing that stands out in my
This week, I remembered something we brainstormed at PF about five years ago. Something that never got off the ground. An idea that seemed incredibly brilliant at the time, but didn’t happen. Looking back at it now I’m so grateful we didn’t go this route. (I admit this has been responsible for a LOT of
Everything rushes by so fast. The train. The cars. The meetings. The emails. The slack messages. The cities. All the people. The queue for coffee. (Okay that one maybe doesn’t move so fast cos we don’t have our coffee yet.) In the past week I’ve had a lot of opportunities to rush. Today, I was
Sometimes you need to just get started. And sometimes you need to just stop. Last week I spent five days on the Isle of Mull. It’s my favourite place of rest, of beauty, of refreshment, of quiet and peace. And although I told myself I would simply sit by the fire and read books and
Rest is always possible. It’s always a choice. And it’s always an act of faith. Telling ourselves that we “can’t” rest simply means we won’t. There’s too much on. The baby is crying. The house needs to be viewed today or someone else will buy it. An employee just put in his notice and you
My usual advice to anyone about multiple websites is: don’t have them. Focus on one website, one domain, one URL. Drive everything to that site, because you’ll get more traffic and more focused business that way. I still stand by that advice, but if you know me at all you may be wondering then why I’ve got the