Monthly Archives: February 2025

This week, in my Ponderings, I want to share the balance of social networking and Social Media. I have recently been booked to do a number of talks to Sales People in larger companies. I believe my message about building closer relationships with people in business is getting through, and yet, it is not that easy if they have not been doing it before. I find it very easy to have conversations with people. I started my sales career at 19, in 1983, we relied on creating trust and therefore sales,  through conversations.   How many fish really do jump…

Good morning! Welcome to my 83rd Ponderings that encourages you to sit and think for a moment about your humanness, your Human Touch in an AI world. Let’s never lose it. This week, due to a few people sharing their challenges of imposter syndrome, I'm exploring the critical yet often misunderstood concepts of self-worth and self-esteem. While self-worth reflects our inherent value, self-esteem often relies on external validation, something that social media has ingrained deeply in our lives through the broadcast of posts and the desire to be seen and validated on them. This reliance can lead to fluctuations in…

This weekend, I was deeply moved by the warm, loving comments on a post I shared on February 7th, called ‘Ecademy Day’. I reflected on the day Thomas and I first conceived the idea of creating an online community for business owners. This was a time before Friends Reunited, LinkedIn, and Facebook—when the concept of online communities was still in its infancy. The 151 comments so far, after 3 days, have mentioned over and over again, how special this time in business was, we were socially connecting as business owners, strangers becoming friends, just like Seth Godin stated in his…

This week, my Ponderings are to encourage us all to focus on our ‘humanness’ in this AI world and to thank AI for enabling us to have more time for the very thing that brings us joy, success and confidence in life and business, “time with one another’. We all read about fear as well as the opportunities of AI. I am very excited by it, as already I see in our business that we have more time to spend on the very aspects of our business that differentiate us, we have more time with the people we care about.…

This week, I have been thinking about the benefits of adversity and challenges. It came from a moment last week when I appreciated my desire to keep pushing my brain and learn new things. I was on an AI Training day, provided by James Pick, one of our wonderful BIP100 Members, myself and 19 other BIPPers pushing our brains hard to ensure we were never obsolete! I imagine anyone reading this Ponderings will be able to think about the moments in their life when they hit a wall. Exhausted with work, perhaps feeling a sense of scarcity, and feeling overwhelmed…