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want it all now. We need to continually tell ourselves to slow down, to put a structure and plan in place. It’s a continuous effort and activity towards your end goal that builds success, and in time you will get a far better result.
You must set a strategy for the long term and make decisions that are going to fit that long-term strategy. That is where tools like ‘Simple Rules’ and your business model are useful to set controls to assist thinking long term.
I must admit that I was a young bull for a lot of my career. That’s the entrepreneur in me looking for opportunities – walk 100 metres and there are 100 opportunities. All over the place. I remember my eldest daughter saying to me once, ‘Dad, slow down’, and I would laugh and say, ‘You old bull! Can’t you let me be the young bull?’ She was right that I had to slow