Practical Tips

Stick-to-it-ivity -
Stubbornness with a
purpose It can be so easy
to quit. Life seems hard,
bills are pressing in, you
have family issues, the job
or business isn’t
going the way you want it.
You just want to curl up
into a ball and hope the
world passes you by.
I’ll be the first to
admit it. I’ve been
in this place many times
over the last 47 years. And
there I would have
remained, like so many
people in the world except
for one thing. Stick-to-it-
ivity. And you, dear
reader, may well have
been there too. Maybe
you’re there right
now

“Good enough” never is!
What ever happened to
good old fashioned service?
You know the type - you
went into the corner shop
(try finding one now) and
the owner (who’d
been there for
donkey’s years)
greeted you by name,
picked out the best
produce for you and made
real conversation. And if
you weren’t happy
with something - it was
fixed! Yes, times may well
have moved on, but not
necessarily for the better.
Take my Dick Smith
experience. So I’d
like to hark back to another
time and place - where
quality and excellence
really meant something.
(And I’m not
implying that excellence
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The Power of Ideas Walt
Disney was in his late 30
’s when he got the
idea for Disneyland. His
daughters were young and
he enjoyed taking them to
the amusement park on
Sundays. But while his
daughters sat on the rides,
he sat on the bench,
munching peanuts and
thinking. He thought about
how much fun the parks
were for kids - but not the
adults who brought them.
They were dirty, ugly and
litter strewn and he
wondered if it had to be
that way. Most of all he
thought of ways to build a
park that would be bigger,
brighter, cleaner and more
fun for the whole family