Peace.
I teach my business and investing clients that peace is the goal. Now, now and now.
The practice is coming to awareness, not mind.
Awareness observes the mind. It is not the mind.
In peace and awareness, one finds fresh solutions.
Untouched by emotions, triggers and beliefs. Those belong...
An investor client came to me with lofty financial goals. He had the parts to reach them. An achiever that set the goals. An accountant, good with figures. An organised part that built his trading plans.
He had been SAS. After that, a mercenary. He had done horrible things.
Below the line he carri...
A client came to me with a clear goal. She wanted her business to run without her so she could have more fun.
On the conscious level she had everything the goal needs. A planner, highly organised. An achiever with high standards.
Below the line it was a different story. A low self-worth part she k...
A business owner came to me wanting more — more income, more ease. On paper nothing was in her way. The market was there. The capacity was there. She tried everything.
The number wouldn't move. Year after year, the same ceiling.
It wasn't the market, and it wasn't the effort. A part of her h...
A business owner came to me fifteen years ago. Twenty staff. Sixty-hour weeks. She wanted the business to run without her.
She grew up a doctor's daughter in a small country town — her family had the house on the hill with the pool. The other children picked on her and left her out.
So she learned...
No political leader will save you.
Politicians run on demonisation. They make the other side the enemy — the other party, the other view — because a divided public is easier to hold. Division isn't a side effect. It's the strategy. It keeps them in power.
That is leadership at the lowest level of ...
The professional is built to be seen.
Lawyer. Doctor. The title carries the status, and the identity moves in behind it.
To scale, you have to leave the room. Systems carry the income. Other people do the work you were known for. You stop being the one who knows.
Your mind wants the wealth and th...
Being the boss.
Most of my work is with leaders scaling teams.
The ones who struggle share a pattern: the need to be seen. To be right. To be validated. To be special. To be better than others.
Power and status are the escape from low self-worth. That need is why they became the boss — not to bui...
The body screams no.
The person in front of me tells me, with full certainty, that they want to scale their business.
Their body screams no.
The subconscious holds a different reality to the one the head is telling. The memory of past chaos and loss pulls the strings from the invisible.
The subc...
Being needed.
Most business owners were trained as doers. To be needed. To be indispensable. School programs a good worker: you are important.
Scale requires the opposite. Management by dashboard needs you unimportant. Not needed. Not seen.
The desire to be seen was installed long before the busi...
Saving someone's feelings.
The leader with a people pleaser character withholds uncomfortable truths from staff.
It is dressed as kindness. I don't want to hurt her feelings.
Look closer. The feelings being saved are not the staff member's. Withholding protects the leader from the guilt that woul...
Different characters run your business.
The technician loves the doing and feels fulfilled in the doing. The worker, the expert. I am the electrician, the lawyer, the florist — a worker label you apply to yourself as a business person.
The CEO sees the business as a machine — a system to be built,...