Six tips for Entrepreneurs
While being a successful entrepreneur requires a number of different skills, there are one or two - often overlooked ones - that stand out as fundamental. These are: 1. You can’t be good at everything. Engage people better and brighter than you as soon as you can afford them going forward. 2. Focus on your strengths. You don’t have the time or inclination to focus on your weaknesses - that is what you hire others for. 3. Good ideas are easy to come by. Good people are not - t
My six top tips for writing
1. Don’t procrastinate! You’ve heard it before, but it’s so true. Discipline yourself to sit down and write - whether you feel like it or not. Almost always creativity will follow. 2. Set yourself realistic goals - whether daily, weekly, or over longer periods. 3. Make notes of ideas (send yourself texts or emails) and collect/cut out articles that have nuggets of good ideas, or well-crafted words, for incorporation in your book. 4. You no longer have to rely on getting a Lit
BBC Hereford & Worcester interview with the wonderful Tammy Gooding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0295d28 If you missed my interview with Tammy, here's the link for you to hear it again. You can jump straight to the interview with these timings below: 1:47:00 - Part 1 2:18:50 - Part 2 2:33:45 - Part 3
Temptation calls
WHEN your ancestral Herefordshire home once offered sanctuary to a Tudor princeling, and the discotheque business you launched in the back of a van went on to become the largest entertainment group of its kind in the world, chances are you're someone with quite a story to tell. And that's exactly what Tom Vaughan has done with his first novel, The Other Side Of Loss, a compelling and thought-provoking debut novel about temptation, corruption, loss and love. A successful entre
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