The point of no return?
It is the most oft repeated expression in the lexicon of personal development: “You are what you think.” I could call upon many great names to support my point, but it matters not….
Is your career on Stop?
> Career (or personal) development in law firms gets scant attention. You join, having endured a contrived process of elimination, with high expectations. Your head is full of principled ideas of how the…
What lies at the centre of your legal world?
“Total revolution has to arise from your very centre.” Osho I have been on a mission for the last week. To show that there is another way. The truth is you are so…
Habits and the Six Minute Mindset
Wake up. The clock starts ticking … Breakfast. Go to Work. Work (and account for every 6 minutes). Lunch. More Work. Rush hour (stress in abundance). Family/you time (sometimes if you are lucky)….
Doing what you love, loving what you do
“Because it is the curtain that kept him shrouded in darkness. And it’s the darkness that holds out the light. It is the light, the openness, the clearing of all the obstacles to…
Throw out the baby with the bathwater
How much do you value what you do? Can you honestly see yourself doing the same or even a similar thing in the next 10 years? Be honest. You would like things to…
Stop … and Focus
I have the words Stop and Focus racing around my head. It is something that I picked up from listening (several times!) to Michael Gerber’s stunning book Awakening the Entrepreneur Within. Previously, I…
Going beyond motivation
When I started out in recruitment all those years ago, I remember crafting innumerable ads for clients with the words “Self-starter”, “highly motivated” and “working unsupervised”. What a load of crap. How the…
It’s All About the Money …
What I Do
I care passionately about what I do.
Always have, always will.
My core message is the power of your brand, and helping people become the most that they can be (see the book Practically Radical by William Taylor). My focus is on social media, but I also work on other areas of practice – business development, client service and EXCELLENCE.
7 Ways to Radically Improve your Career
#1
Bill more (and some M-o-r-e).
Top line growth will always get you noticed, but don’t ignore collecting the cash. Having a slew of bad debts will just as easily attract the wrong sort of attention!
You may well opine “Easier said than done” but I didn’t say this was easy; and that is why it is #1.
Here a few pointers:
