The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploit it as an OPPORTUNITY.

- Peter Drucker
 
Your first system may not be the best. Sep 05, 2021

Hi, and welcome to tonight's episode, it's a late I just finished my review of my week.

And this strange showing, there's no doubt that the intensity of things here in Australia right now is making life pretty challenging.

It's starting to show up in some areas of my life that I was like, Oh, wow, l...

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Cut losses or stick it out? Sep 05, 2021

All right, the interesting news came through the sad news came through today that Golden Century has closed in Sydney.

If you're not familiar with Golden Century, then this is a young char restaurant or dim sum if you're in the States, a Great Chinese institution in Sydney's Chinatown, and essential...

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You must set the Target 🎯 Sep 03, 2021

All right, welcome to today's episode, super excited to talk about this, we have looked at systems for some time now.

And the principle idea of System IO is that systems create results, that the results that you want can be generated and defined and consistently created by the system.

Now, this mean...

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Batched and fast moving systems? Sep 03, 2021

Alright, welcome to today's episode, I thought I would cover advanced systems because you might be thinking, gee, this is great that you've got some way of doing systems and processes, and that it might give me optics on my business.

So I can see what my team is working on if they're remote, or even...

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Queensland border closure. Sep 02, 2021

Okay, welcome to today's episode.

It's an interesting time here in Byron Bay.

What happened is that Queensland, which is the state just above, where Byron is essentially buying to the top of New South Wales, if you don't know Australian geography, and Queensland and want to bug that, now, two days a...

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Step 1... Aug 30, 2021

The problem that business owners run into, as they start to succeed, as you start to get traction in your business and things start to work, you're like, Great, I'm going to bring on some team and get them to do some of the work.

But in this very action begins some big problems that your team come t...

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Lessons from E-myth... Aug 30, 2021

Alright, I've returned to reading the E Myth, which is obviously the classic on systems on strategic systems on the entrepreneurial role within a business.

And I've really been enjoying it speaks of how most businesses are begun by technicians, someone who knows how to do a particular thing.

And thi...

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10k once for 120k a year? Aug 23, 2021

All right, well, we just finished soccer.

And I thought I would share with you a little story that I had from this morning.

Well, first of all, before we go there, Sam was wondering about how I use the little DJ equipment, I think it's called a DJI Osmo.

And the reason I got this was that my last wa...

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Why don't you just get it done? Aug 22, 2021

All right, welcome to today's episode, it's been an interesting day for me, I had budgeted for some work about maybe two, maybe two and a half hours.

But about six hours later, I am still working through the work that I set out to get today.

Get it done today.

And what I've been doing is building th...

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Slow going in the garden... Initial system building is a lot of work? Aug 22, 2021

All right, welcome to today's episode, look, I've just been down in the garden, putting in about two hours of fairly difficult work.

So it's the middle of winter here.

And it's pretty nice.

But I want to get on top of the situation.

Because once spring comes, this place goes bananas.

So it's August ...

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Which is better? Organize around people for their work or work for people? Aug 20, 2021

All right, we've got kids around at the moment, we're in lockdown day number three Daenam.

For something like that.

It's okay.

It's Byron Bay, it's not so bad.

I went surfing this morning, and I didn't do very well.

I didn't drown, which was awesome.

But my, my usual board is seven foot eight.

And t...

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Strange responses to exiting the comfort zone. Logic is no match for emotion. Aug 20, 2021

So it's late at night, and I should have done this hours ago part.

The interesting thing about business is that many of us know about sedating about hiding about running away when things aren't going well.

And things are overwhelming.

Things aren't working.

It's easy to turn to drink to cannabis, to...

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