by Phil Olley | Mar 30, 2026 | Business Growth, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Personal development, Points Of Focus, Success
Playing your A-C-E How have the first 90 days of your year gone? Has this been a quarter of breakthroughs and achievements? Have you achieved the goals, the “wins and highlights” you set out at the start of the year? What went well? What didn’t go well? Are you on...
by Phil Olley | Mar 23, 2026 | Focus, Goals, Leadership, Mindset, Personal development, Points Of Focus, Purpose, Success
Have you noticed how, when you are engaging with a fresh exciting project, a point of focus that generates zest and passion, often people around you will say, “That’s good, but you’ve got to be Balanced.” This is the sort of caveat-led advice offered to those who are...
by Phil Olley | Mar 5, 2026 | Leadership, Mindset, Personal development, Points Of Focus, Purpose, Success
One of the main motivational drivers, for the vast majority of people, is a sense that you are making a difference, a sense that what you are doing and being, moment by moment, is significant. Significance is, of course, not to be confused with ‘status’. It’s not...
by Phil Olley | Feb 23, 2026 | Focus, Leadership, Mindset, Personal development, Points Of Focus, Purpose, Success
When all around is changing (and it is – you can feel, it sense it, I’m sure because 2026 certainly is about change), and sometimes that change feels unwanted or out of control, it is natural to be bombarded by ‘self-questions.’ That is true whether the change is...
by Phil Olley | Feb 13, 2026 | Mindset, Personal development, Points Of Focus, Purpose, Success
It has become customary in some quarters for Friday 13th to be designated “BSE day”- Blame Someone Else day! And it’s an excuse to blame others for all the bad luck and for everything that goes wrong (a number of years ago, online card companies latched onto it...
by Phil Olley | Dec 17, 2025 | Focus, Leadership, Mindset, Personal development, Purpose, Success
25 Lessons for 2025 Trust yourself. Your Gut-Feeling is rarely, if ever, wrong. Never put off a phone call. There are still only 24 hours in a day… and it’s plenty; there are still only 7 days in a week … and it’s plenty; and there are still only 52 weeks in a year…...