Eggsactly What I Wanted to Discuss DATELINE: SURFER’S PARADISE, QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA Happy Easter Housekeeping and gags before this week’s important business topic. 👉 Thank you to everyone who replied or acted on last week’s email. I heard from several other small business owners who are also in a kind of “email limbo / hell” due to...
A few years ago I posted about how we split our paycheque each month, and it’s a popular post and topic of conversation. So I thought I would update those figures, and also include a link to the budget template we use. How We Budget Our budget is essentially “the Envelope Method” of budgeting. This...
Plus I’m Speaking to the Toughest Audience Ever! DATELINE: MY DAUGHTER’S PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM I’m sorry. In February, a few close contacts stopped replying mid-conversation. Then clients mentioned they hadn’t seen a specific email. Or two. Then some calendar appointments began disappearing – and I showed up to a few empty meeting rooms. Emails and...
Like Sand Through an Hourglass DATELINE: BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA It’s been an eventful few weeks in the Aldridge household. Many of you shared the long and windy road that my beautiful wife and I took to parenthood, and it’s remarkable to me that a further ~5 years have passed. Starting a child at school has triggered many unpleasant...
The proportion of Australian families with one child has doubled in the past 35 years – nuking stereotypes along the way. Jacob Aldridge, 41, grew up the eldest of four children. His wife Harmony, 41, a lawyer and business consultant, was raised an “only” in Tasmania. Click here to read the full article.
Are you asking Santa to help you Be Better or Be Bigger? Or Both! DATELINE: BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA It was the night before payroll, and all through the office, Not a creature was stirring – for there was nought in the coffers. The bank website was loaded, the refresh button pressed with care, In the hope...
