As not only the year but also the decade comes to a close, I'm taking a look back at 10+ years of entrepreneurship and asking: what are the most valuable lessons I've learnt along the way?Out of everything I've done, all the successes and failures along the way, there are 3 things that stand out to me. These are my most valuable lessons and insights from the decade. ...
A year ago, I announced a new productivity experiment and invited you to join in. I created a simple spreadsheet where I would track 3 areas of my life on a weekly basis:Challenges (like 30 day challenges to form new habits)Focus skillsBooksA year has passed and so it's time to look back and asses: did this productivity experiment work? Should I have done things differently?Let's find out! ...
While this site has only recently been revived, I want to continue the tradition of looking back at the past year and extracting the most valuable lessons and learning points from it.2016 was another big year in my business and despite already being past the "small business" and "startup" stages, we managed to double our revenue again, over the course of the year.This would indicate that we're doing some things right.2016 was also arguably one of the most challenging and ...
Like last year, Paul McCarthy and myself took some time to reflect on the year past and extract the most important and transformative lessons we learnt.2015 was a year of fast growth for our company (Thrive Themes) and today's podcast episode is chock-full of tips you can apply to grow your own business, become a more focused and productive entrepreneur and much more... ...
The end of the year approaches and as has become a tradition on this blog, I want to take a look back and tell you about the most valuable lessons I learnt in the last 12 months. The year 2014 has been the craziest year I’ve experienced in business so far. By any number you could care to measure, it has been a very successful year and it has been a wild ride. Never before have I experienced so much ...
With another year gone (surprisingly quickly, I might add) it’s once again time to look back and extract the most valuable lessons from the past 12 months. As every year, things went differently than expected. At times it was challenging, at times thrilling and at times frustrating – but certainly never boring. In today’s post, I want to extract the most important and most valuable lessons from everything that happened in 2013. Did my big gamble from the year before ...
This post is a candid look back at what happened in my business during the past year and what lessons can be learnt from it. As every year, you get a no holds barred inside look. You get the good, the bad, the ugly. Read on to find out why I said no to dozens of opportunites, lost tens of thousands of dollars and took a huge gamble… ...