Last week I highlighted one definition of multitasking – the ability to listen, ignore and forget all at the same time. Since I wrote that piece I have been thinking more about multitasking. No, that does not mean that I spent the last week dwelling upon my own shortcomings. I was writing about multitasking in …
When anyone expects me to listen to them and do something on the computer, I always point out that I do not multitask. I cannot listen and do. You decide which one is most important to you, but if I am typing I will either not take in what you are telling me or, if …
We are basically lazy. We like it when people make our lives easy. We buy more readily when retailers make it easy for us to buy what we think we want. Amazon feeds that lazy streak in us. Amazon is an amazing resource. When you decide that you want something, you can go online at …
As you can imagine, for various reasons, Helen and I have not managed to get away for some time. I think the last trip was to a tax conference in November 2019. I know how to show a lady a good time! The Covid restrictions seem to have been around for such a long time …
I recently read an inspiring article written by an accountant. She is the founder of a progressive accounting practice established about 15 years ago in Englandshire. On 1 April 2021, she almost died. While out walking her dog, her right leg suddenly cramped and stopped working due to multiple arterial blood clots that had lodged …
I attended a 3-day conference recently. I have never been to one of these before but this time it was online. There were a number of sessions each day and for each 40 minute session you had a selection of topics and speakers. And it was all from the comfort of my own desk. Now, …
A reputation is a funny thing but what is a reputation? It seems to me that a reputation is merely another person’s opinion about you, your character, and abilities. It is just an opinion, probably based on incomplete information and coloured by personal bias and prejudices. You generally have a good opinion about someone because …
Normal daily life seems to be changing at a crazy speed and I don’t suppose that is going to change anytime soon. When I think back to things like the price of petrol, I start to sound like my parents. In a few years’ time, I suppose people will be asking why we ever used …
I had an interesting conversation with Andrew Still this week. He runs James Dow Office Supplies in Inverness, and he likes paper and files and the people who use them. He had been saying this a couple of weeks ago and, in a friendly way, I was pointing out that we are paperless. This week …
I have heard this before and it still seems crazy that this should be “a”, or “the” key element in the success of any business owner. I am not even sure that I know where I first came across it and I definitely cannot repeat it word for word. But it goes something like this: …
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