Reducing dependence on mobile phone

Last month I was working with a coaching client and she was trying to reduce her dependence on her mobile phone which was causing anxiety from missing out.  I consider myself having a decent relationship with my mobile phone and I could have simply passed my own rules to her.  However this is not how […]

Three books that changed my business

Can a book change you? Perhaps. Can a book change the way you do things? Of course, if that’s what you are after. Here is a short story of how three books changed my perception of business and how to run my own.

Yellow belts in networking

I have been practicing martial arts since 1978 so their practice is very much embedded in everything I do in my life; many martial arts use coloured belts as ranking system, in order to indicate seniority, and often experience/expertise within the school.  For many schools and styles the yellow belt indicates the level that students […]

The takeover of Salus Wellness

Having started Salus Wellness in 2010 with fellow martial artist and long time friend Luca Senatore, I naturally feel emotionally attached to the company that is currently providing a professional working place for nearly 30 complementary health professionals.  Luca and I started the company from scratch: we acquired a wreck of a building previously run […]

How to Grow Your Twitter Followers

More and more people start using twitter as a marketing tool and yet too many fail to understand how it works. In a nutshell Twitter is a microblogging site with a very distinct limitation: all messages are limited to 140 characters very much like an SMS message. If you see Twitter as a (micro) blog […]