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When I started out I was keen to boil the ocean. I wanted to do everything I could to make my business work. I failed to understand the value of opportunity cost when it came to boiling the ocean, I valued the act of doing something over the value of doing the right thing. What

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Throughout this blog I’ve tried to steer clear of talking about what happened to me. I think there are better books at doing that and in all honesty to date I’ve not really achieved anything of note. But when it comes to work life balance I think there are some things I’ve been through that

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Did you know if you put 3 moderates and 1 extremist in a room for an hour and ask them to debate a topic, the 3 moderates will come out more extreme and the extremist won’t change? There’s something pre-programed in human beings that means we gravitate towards the loudest voice in the room –

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In the previous chapter I mentioned the fact that we’re all dealt cards in life and that it’s our job to play those cards as best we can. It’s simply not beneficial to stand around and wish we had someone else’s cards. Now we see cards being dealt all the time and yet we don’t

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When I first started going to the gym I found it really hard to compete with all the bigger guys that went. There always seemed to be someone with better muscles, or someone that could lift a heavier weight. So I did what any textbook tells you to do, I tried harder and I beat

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One of my favourite hobbies is going to the gym. I don’t go to compete on stage or look better than anyone else (although I’ll admit when I started out I did think it would help me seem more attractive to the opposite sex). The gym for me is a way to de-stress. When you

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