Ideas come and go. Every successful entrepreneur has seen ideas fail. That’s all part of it. The thing that all (successful) entrepreneurs have in common is their commitment to being entrepreneurs. It’s an identity thing: To be an entrepreneur is to declare that your mission is to create extraordinary value in the world. It’s extraordinary [...]

There are two pretty common ways of approaching how people view their job and their identity. There are those that just see their job as a means to an end. It might not light their passion but they are okay with that. What’s important to them is what they can do with the money gained [...]

Someday… Have you ever watched a documentary about addiction where the addict is telling the camera crew that someday he will quit? Someday he’ll settle down, he’ll get a job and then he will happy. Someday, if he can just get a break he can break his addiction. If he just had some money, he [...]

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back “Sick and tired of being sick and tired makes me tired and sick from worrying about being sick and tired” It’s fulfilling prophecy. We feel bad about feeling bad. We feel guilty for feeling bad. We realise we are letting ourselves be the victim and then feel angry about [...]

Many of us in the UK have begun to realise – our crisis is no longer material. Our crisis is existential – meaning more and more of us are seeking guidance and help through the NHS leading to unacceptably long wait times and the thresholds of access being raised. As a result, people’s needs are [...]