3. We believe that small business is the heartbeat of the Australian
economy and that each one has the right to succeed.
Since 2003 we have worked with personally over 2400 small
business owners and their teams – 90% trades businesses.
NCB creates an environment where business owners have access
to the tools, information and resources necessary to help them
make better decisions that:
• Improve cash flow
• Get them more clients
• Reduce the # hours worked
• Get a better financial return
• Decrease stress levels
• More of what they desire
6. 1. Consistent and predictable revenue and
cash flow - sustainable
2. Systems (IP) documented – scalable
3. Profit maximisation – keeping more of
what you earn
4. Freedom – choice of selling or stepping out
or choosing a role
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9. 1. Is the key to be more productive so you can get
more done/do more? More of WHAT exactly?
2. Or is the goal is to actually do less?
3. Where does this quest to DO more come from?
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16. 1. I did not reflect enough.
2. I did not love/express my feelings enough.
3. I did not take enough risks.
4. I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself,
not the life expected of me.
5. I wish I had not worked so many hours.
17. 1. Act by default vs. design
2. No discernment between being busy and
being productive
3. Habits are destroying them vs. creating them
4. Fear of saying NO – living to ‘please others’
5. Living with dis-empowering B.S.
6. Satisfied with the status quo
18. 7. Not willing to change
8. Lost touch with ‘their heart’ & spirit
9. Live in the future
10.Addicted to distraction – immediate
gratification
11.No structure/planning
12.Major in minor things
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20. Most people would rather be
‘poor and liked’
vs.
‘wealthy and respected’.
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23. 1. Know what you want
in your life…
2. Get super focused…
3. Manage your energy (not time)…
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25. 1. What do you want for your life?
2. Stop doing everything that is not aligned
with this!
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30. You can do ANYTHING…
you just
can’t do EVERYTHING!
42. 1. Get perspective on what matters most
2. Source solitude – whatever works for you
3. Create rituals – habits @ home/work
4. Reflect daily
5. DO what you love – create a game
6. Build the NO Muscle – with a smile! If it not
aligned – say NO…
43. 1. Get up earlier – even 15 minutes
2. Exercise – get FIT – do what you enjoy –
Triple S
3. Eat to FUEL – not to FULL
4. Regular ‘time out’
5. Technology FREE time
6. Value your time & energy
7. Sleep
44. 1. Clear the clutter – enema your office/life
2. Have an external brain
3. Let go of EVERYTHING that gets in the way of
being EXTRAORDINARY – its liberating
4. Delete energy vampires & draining activities
5. ONE goal, ONE Project, ONE Task at a time
6. Optimise, Automate, Outsource
45. 1. Schedule the BIG ROCKS
2. One list – 3-5 items
3. Have an agenda for every meeting
4. Manage email like a hawk –
unsubscribe
5. Create 60 – 90 minute FOCUS blocks
6. 17 minute GPS
46. 5 minutes (am) – P & P
1 minute x 7
5 minutes (pm) – Triple R
54. What we have found is…
Most of business owners will…
• Hear what we say
• Understand it intellectually
• Agree with all the principles
• KNOW that it is the thing they should
do, and then will…