What’s your biggest business blocker right now ....or what are your biggest blockers? Let me know in the comments. I’m going to shape tomorrow’s Skool Board Zoom (7-8pm... link in Skool calendar) around the challenges you’re facing. ...and if you cant make it i will record the session and make it available for everyone We’ll explore how to go under, over and straight through those blockers ....so you can remove them and keep moving your business forward. Drop yours below 👇 in skool or email me and I will help you remove any and all blockages

For many people, their success isn’t determined by what they learnt at school, but by the experience they had there. Perhaps they were on the spectrum and nobody recognised it. Perhaps they had poor teachers, lacked support at home or simply didn’t fit the system. But a bad experience at school can create a lifelong negative connection with every form of learning, training and personal development. The reality is simple: - You are where you are today because of what you know, what you do and how you think. I know many people who work incredibly hard. Some even have a reasonable mindset. But they’re still not progressing because they’ve stopped developing themselves. - They think they know enough. - They think they’re already good enough. What they fail to recognise is that, every single day, they are choosing… and yes, I do mean choosing… to remain exactly where they are. Because if you really, really, really wanted something to change, you would get off your arse and recognise what is holding you back. Perhaps it’s your lack of knowledge. Your lack of connections. Your inability to communicate, sell, lead, engage or influence. That isn’t criticism. It’s an opportunity, because every one of those things can be learnt. But only if you’re willing to learn. You may have hated school. That doesn’t mean you have to hate education. Learning isn’t confined to a classroom, and your past experience doesn’t have to determine your future. But if you’re not willing to learn, grow and develop yourself, then get comfortable where you are. Because nothing changes until you do.

The most powerful meeting I ever had, I wanted nothing. 👇 Years ago, me and my business partner spotted in a trade magazine that the chief exec of one of our biggest clients was turning 60 - and marking 40 years at the same company. So we rang his PA and booked a lunch. He came along, and for two hours we just talked. The industry, where it was heading, what he’d seen over 40 years. No pitch. No proposal. No “while I’ve got you…” As he got up to leave, he stopped and said: “Thanks boys. Lovely lunch. But… what was it you wanted?” Nothing, we said. We saw your milestone and wanted to say thank you for your business. He couldn’t compute it. He walked off down the waterside and every few steps he looked back over his shoulder - waiting for us to shout the catch after him or try to sell something to him. It never came. A week later we got a letter. He said in 40 years, nobody had ever travelled to buy him a lunch and want nothing. Nobody. In 40 years. From that day on we made it a system. Regular meetings with the people who mattered to us - clients, contacts, connectors - with one rule: no selling. Go to listen, to learn, and to say thank you. That’s it. Hardest discipline in business, that. Because nearly everyone can’t help themselves. They book the “catch up coffee” and then out comes the pitch - and the other person saw it coming before they’d even sat down. But here’s what happened to us. Those no-agenda meetings brought us more business, more referrals and more loyalty than any pitch we ever gave. Because when you want nothing, people relax. And when people relax, they talk. And when they talk, they tell you exactly how to help them - then remember you as the one who never asked. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. 👊 So here’s this week’s challenge. Pick one person - a good client, an old contact, someone who’s helped you along the way. Book a coffee or a lunch. Go with nothing to sell and nothing to ask. Listen, learn, say thank you, leave.

Today, hundreds of thousands of 18-year-olds will open their A-level results believing that one envelope, email or screen could determine their entire future. It won’t. That doesn’t mean exams aren’t important. They are. Set goals. Work hard. Prepare properly. Aim high. Do everything you can to achieve the best result possible. But never confuse the result of one test with the measure of your potential. It is one snapshot of where you are today… not a verdict on who you are or what you can become tomorrow. A quick glance through the guests on my Success Is a System podcast proves it. - Alfie Best left school with no qualifications and became enormously successful. - Charlie Mullins, - Neville Wright, - Kevin Byrne and many others I’ve interviewed built extraordinary businesses without degrees, A-levels or, in some cases, even O-levels. My own academic journey didn’t follow the conventional route either… yet decades later, I received an honorary doctorate in education. Your starting point does not determine your finishing position and neither does age Ray Kroc was 52 when he began turning a small restaurant concept called McDonald’s into a global phenomenon. Colonel Sanders was in his sixties when he began franchising the recipe that became KFC. Success doesn’t have an age limit. Nor is it decided by one exam, one driving test, one military assessment, one university degree… or one difficult day. Whatever appears on that results page today, celebrate it or learn from it… but don’t let it define you. The most important result is what you choose to do next. Because one day can measure your current position. But it can never measure your potential .

YOU CAN’T WIN NEW GROWTH WITH AN OLD TEAM, AN OLD ATTITUDE AND OLD SYSTEMS Every business owner says they want growth. - More customers. - More revenue. - More profit. - More freedom. But many are trying to create a new future using exactly the same people, thinking and systems that created their current results. That doesn’t work. If you want something new, something has to change. That might mean: - Developing the team you have… or accepting that some people cannot come on the next stage of the journey. - Challenging attitudes that resist change, avoid accountability or settle for “good enough”. - Replacing outdated systems that waste time, lose opportunities and depend too heavily on you. - Growth isn’t simply doing more of what you’ve always done. It’s having the courage to question what, and sometimes who, got you here, but won’t get you there. If you want something new, you need to do something different. So, looking honestly at your business today, what most needs to change: the team, the attitude or the systems?