I specialize in helping small business owners who are overloaded, or struggling to grow, to get more time, energy, and profits.
Is this you?
You are one of a special breed - a small business owner.
You love being your own boss, but you are working long hours and constantly worrying about where the next sale is coming from. There’s the constant stress of feeling like you are on a never-ending treadmill for not enough reward.
Can you relate?
With my backslapping, butt-kicking, tender-loving support and practical guidance, your business can grow steadily, from exhausting schedules to a healthy life-balance, from struggle to satisfaction.
Together we can make a change so profound that others will be wanting to know how you can walk around looking like you don’t have a care in the world.
Is that even possible for a small business owner?
I have been a trainer, facilitator, and coach for over 35 years. I launched my own small business, Get More Time, helping companies and individuals to be more productive. While this was enormously satisfying, I found my heart went out to small business owners who were doing it alone, especially when they were also doing it tough.
That is why I distilled everything I have learned into what I call the ESI System. It’s tailormade for that special breed of courageous go-getters, small business owners.
I was a young bloke growing up in Tasmania. The sum total of my ambition was to be good at sport, leave school as soon as possible, get a trade, chase girls and enjoy a drink while hanging out with my mates.
I thought I was doing all right, but I had a major case of Drift-itis. I drifted from job to job. From pay cheque to pay cheque. From one good time to the next. I didn’t think about it. Life just kind of carried me along.
But sometimes in life you catch a break, and mine came in the shape of a mentor. “Listen, young fella,” he said. “With your energy and potential, you could make it on the mainland. You’ve got to stop mucking around. I’m sending you on a course where you will learn what’s what.”
The course turned out to be on Goal Setting. One of the first things they got us to do was rate, from one to ten, how satisfied we were in the major areas of our life. I’d never even thought about it before. I carefully worked my way down the list: Money, Family, Love, Career, Community, Spiritual... and on it went. By the time I got to the end of the list, I had a bunch of low scores and a very red face. What a loser.
Next we had to imagine what ‘fully satisfied’ looked like, and then write down some specific goals in each area. It was tough at first, thinking up stuff (um...file my tax returns?), but by the end I was on a roll (get a real career, get married, have kids, run a marathon...). It was all pretty exciting.
I ended up studying and teaching Personal and Professional Development for the next 35 years.
I used the skills I learned to work successfully for other people, in several industries. But I wasn’t satisfied. I loved the idea of working for myself. But if I thought working for the man had its challenges, it was nothing compared to the struggle of starting and growing a small business.
I launched my training business, Get More Time. Helping companies and individuals to be more productive and manage their time more efficiently was enormously satisfying. But I was working long hours, and constantly worrying about where the next sale was coming from. I had a small business that was making modest profits, but how to take it to the next level?
Finally, I remembered how a mentor had turned my life around as a teenager. Maybe I needed someone like that now.
Long story short, I found a business coach. It was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Without that back-slapping, butt-kicking, tender-loving support and practical guidance, my business would still be struggling to stay afloat. Instead, it has grown steadily, from strength to strength, from just breaking even to handsome profits, from exhausting schedules to healthy life-balance, from struggle to satisfaction.
The change was so profound that other business owners wanting to know how I could run my small business looking like I didn’t have a care in the world. There’s only one thing worse than trying to make a profit in a small business, and that’s the constant stress of feeling like you are on a never-ending treadmill of hard yakka for not enough reward.
I discovered that I loved helping other small business owners who are overloaded or struggling to grow to get more time, energy, and profits.
That’s why I have created a free training that reveals how to catapult a small business from struggle-street to a growing thriving success in 3 months.
Small Business Coach & Productivity Expert
Founder of the EASY System
35 years of experience as a Trainer, Facilitator & Coach to corporations, small businesses & individuals.
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