Last month I celebrated the end of the first official year of my coaching and training company, ThreeSixtySkills Pte. Ltd., which I launched in 2015 here in Singapore. Woohoo! (Before that I ‘only’ had a blog, not a real live business.) I can’t believe how many things have happened in a year! I’d never have […]
Have you ever wanted to say NO to something and instead ended up saying YES? Perhaps it was the time someone asked you for a discount, or to attend a meeting that would have robbed you of precious time. Or the time you were asked for a favour, which you did just to keep the […]
In this Q&A session, Samantha asks for suggestions on how to better organise her time and be more productive: I wanted to ask you for some advice on how to organise my days and my tasks in order to achieve my objectives. I always have a thousand things in mind and a thousand things to […]
Following on from this slightly controversial title I’d like to talk about something close to my heart: money. A while ago I sent a simple question to the ThreeSixtySkills community: Consider the idea of creating a business based on your passions. What are the biggest obstacles you can see? Guess what? Many of the responses […]
On 30th May 2014 I arrived in Singapore with two suitcases full of clothes, books, hopes, and fears. After being in a long-distance relationship with Simone, my current partner, for a year, I had finally decided to leave everything behind and move abroad, to Asia. Some people said I was mad: a short time before, […]
In last week’s article, you saw that all businesses go through three phases: infancy, adolescence, and maturity. And you also saw that to be successful you need to be capable of acting as an executor, as an entrepreneur, and as a manager. How can you manage all these roles without splitting yourself into three? The […]
A lot of people think that if you’re good at what you do, becoming a successful entrepreneur is easy. Yet the statistics show that 80% of small businesses fail during the first five years, if not the first three. Have you ever wondered what it is that keeps a business going? When I struck out […]
