A WHY statement for a business is known as a “mission statement”. It is similar to a personal WHY statement in a number of ways. Having a good mission statement is important but most tradies don’t bother to create one. Or they write one for a business plan and then never look at it again.…
Why is it tradies don’t want to ask for help when it comes to running their business? Trade businesses are no different to other businesses. Tradies need help the same as other entrepreneurs, so why are they reticent to ask for help? One reason might be how the trades are perceived as an industry by…
Stop Deferring Your Happiness – You Can Already Do the Things You Want to Do One of the biggest wrong assumptions that the vast majority of people on this planet make is that they aren’t able to do the things they want to do. To clarify, the assumption that many of us make is that…
Holding Yourself Accountable In Goal Setting Being accountable in goal setting isn’t easy. It’s always easy to blame other people or other things when you fall short of reaching your goals or when you lose the will to pursue them. You might have gone through this kind of frustration before, and you probably just can’t…
Yesterday was World Mental Health Day and it got me thinking about male Tradies and as blokes, how bad we are at expressing our feelings. Just as importantly though, is our inability to pick up on how our workmates are doing. Men in general find it very hard to talk about how they are feeling…
If you’ve been following The Business Prophet for a while either on social media or out in the marketplace you would have heard me talk about the Bureau of Statistics research that shows that 4 out of every 5 businesses fail within the first 3 years of being in business. Of those 4 businesses, 46%…