When your business partner is your life partner
Not a walk in the park Running a business can put relationships under severe strain, especially when you’re in business with your life partner! I’m talking from experience here, having owned and operated a restaurant with my ex-wife and later a veterinary clinic with...
Ready to sell your business? Now? In this environment?
Can you sell your business and exit successfully in this uncertain economic climate? Yes you can! An example is Powertools and Servicing Tauranga. What did it take? Read this case study now and find out.
Top 15 questions business owners should ask themselves
As small business owners, we don’t ask ourselves enough questions that really make us think. What questions would make you squirm? These are the Top 15 questions that every business owner should ask themselves.
Business Owners’ Mindset Pitfalls
Being in business is empowering, challenging and exciting all in one. Achieving wealth, freedom and keeping your sanity at the same time is the trifecta of business success. But running a business will change you as a person and you’ll need to be ready for that.
The Impact of Business Coaching
Our big point of difference is the coaching and support around the mindset piece. Be Bold is a significant part of why the clients I work with operate at a higher level, and grow faster and sustainably, personally and in the business. Kevin and Cherie from Weinbox Builders near Cambridge. are going for it.
Are You Being Bold in Your Business?
Everyone has a least some idea of what it would mean to go after stuff. To do things in the business. To do things in life. To give it more. To do things better. To live a life in alignment with your motivators. It requires stepping up and stepping out. Mandy Riggir from Olio Design in Cambridge did just that.
How to Stop Procrastinating
Do you find yourself wasting time instead of working on important, meaningful tasks that drive your business forward? Do you catch yourself doing trivial things when you really should be productive and working smart? That’s procrastination.
Mindset Is Where The Magic Happens
Martine says that for reasons she didn’t quite understand at first but now sees clearly, there were some behaviours that sabotaged her success. She now recognises the things that are holding her back, and she’s started to approach them differently.
Stopped Loving Your Business?
Have you stopped loving your business? The Covid-19 situation has created a significantly changing environment. What seemed reasonably predictable before, has now turned into massive uncertainty for many. This creates a lot of fear and anxiety and is consciously or...
Which zone are you in?
"Once you are aware that you are moving towards the red you can change it quickly, but if you don't know or don't have the tools to choose you are always going to be in the red." A client of Douwe's recently said after completing some of our Be Bold Mindset...
Helping your boat go faster….
Before heading out onto the water, know the rules and check essential equipment.Sailing the ocean… such a great analogy for what it is like to be in business! Sometimes its smooth sailing, sometimes rough. Sometimes we feel like we’re not going anywhere fast. We need...
How comfortable is your comfort zone?
We’d just finished breakfast on Friday, Phil and I, and we were walking to the office, and there was this sign. I’m not even sure what zone we were in that was ending, but it got us talking about change and comfort zones.... Change has a way of making us feel...
One Guaranteed way to get Ahead
“We were never that good at school. But one thing about us, as a family…. we are all good at making a decision. It might not always be the right one, but we make our mind up and go for it”. I caught up with a local farmer recently who I have known for some time. We...
Profits are Sanity, Sales are Vanity
I love going to networking events and watching business owners beat their chests about how much their sales have increased over the year. Don’t get me wrong, sales growth is vital in many businesses… BUT not at the price of good old-fashioned profit. It’s interesting...
Leaders with Personality
Great leaders understand other people and often are brilliant communicators. How come they seem to get along with everyone and get people eating out of their hand? What is it about them? Is it their personality? What is it? What is your reality? How is...
What The How?
ATTN ALL BUSINESS OWNERS! Why are you TOLERATING NOT getting what you want from your business and your life? Seriously think about it for a quick second and mark yourself out of 10. A “10” is where you are getting everything you want from your business and...
Why are you doing what you’re doing?
Its a funny question to be asked! I recently had to answer this question for a course that I am doing. It got me thinking.
Are you Ready?
More great feedback from a client: “Having engaged Phil Holland as a coach, I know from experience that he is true to his word…
Are you about to Launch?
My beautiful 12 year old daughter made this for me and put it on my office wall. What an epic quote and thoughtfulness from a 12 year old!
How Much do you Suck?
Seriously…how much do you REALLY suck?? Interesting question to ask yourself! I remember periods of my life when I really did suck!
Avoid the MACK truck
Sometimes it takes a MACK truck to smash into you side on before you start to take note of whats really important in your life.
What is your “excuse” this year?
What brilliant excuse will you come up with this year? (I bet it will be a doozy!!!) Let’s be honest. Most business owners are really…
Are you sitting on a Nail?
There is a dog sitting on a nail; One guy says to the other guy, why does your dog keep howling; The other guys says
How many seeds did you plant today?
Every single day should be a seed planting day! Why wouldn’t you want to forward your game? BUT….Do you have a …
Mindset is Everything!
Be Bold is a break through mindset philosophy and method developed by Love Your Business. It is the foundation of any coaching work we do with business owners and their teams. When applied it is GUARANTEED to create sustainable results in business and in life.
Most people complicate life (and business!), but in essence it's simple. Keep applying the Be Bold principles and tools, and you will see results, MASSIVE RESULTS!
