Entries by Ann Hawkins

How to be Unique in Business

To be unique in business you just need a good idea! Where do good ideas come from? Some people are creative and some people aren’t, right? Look, we can prove it: Put your palms together, interlace your fingers, note which thumb is on top. If your left thumb is on top of the right one […]

Do you need tea and sympathy?

Feeling bad? Oh dear, poor you. You’re having a hard time, your business isn’t going well and life is so unfair and you have a lot to deal with. I’m so sorry for you. This sympathy is free, there’s no obligation to return it and it’s offered in all sincerity. I’d offer you some tea […]

You can’t be good at everything

I look at a simple paper clip and realize I can’t make one. In fact its rare for any one person to make anything from scratch these days. Artists used to mix their own paints but now most wouldn’t know how to do that. A baker uses ready milled flour and other ingredients that have […]

Are you afraid of failing or afraid of succeeding?

Should you set big fat hairy audacious goals or stick to the reasonable, more easily achieved variety? Many interviews with highly successful people reveal that they set themselves huge goals, fired by a burning desire to achieve something specific and that these goals determine their direction and purpose in life and colour all their decisions […]