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Last night I was relaxing at home, and chatting with a friend on the telephone.  We went through the events of the day and what each of us was up to this week.  It was a great half hour on the phone, but five minutes of it was spent discussing the case of another friend [...]

A Debt Management Plan (DMP) might be just what you need to get your finances back on track. But it isn’t suitable for everyone, so it is really important that you take the right amount of time and thought to look into whether or not a debt management plan is right for you.
Our partners will spend on [...]

Autobiography might be the formal description, but most of the autobiographies I read seem to be severely edited and keep all the raw emotion of a life away from the pages that are supposed to be describing that same life.
When you want to get your story down on the page take the time to establish [...]

The idea of a Farmers’ Market is often almost as old as the ancient or even modern squares they take place in; for wherever someone allows a trading place such as a town square or village green people will use it for trading.
 
The active word here just in case you didn’t catch it is “trading” [...]

A few days ago I went with a colleague to see a prospect who had called and asked for some help with their manufacturing business.  When we got to their premises it was clear that the MD was worried, sad and stressed.
Ten days before our visit a key member of his team had died suddenly, leaving [...]

The purists tell me that writing is only about cultural identity, about aesthetics, about art and life.  They are wrong.  Writing is about anything you want it to be that calls to you or which makes you take action.
I have written books about heart and soul, about investment, about the process of money in life, and about [...]

Will technology make your life easier? Will the office ever be paperless? Will it rain next year in Andalucia?
Having been an early adopter of the Amstrad PCW, The HP Compaq PDA and the Blackberry I wonder how I ever manage to find the time to write books and speak to small business audiences.  My preferred writing [...]

House prices falling, fuel costs rising and wages falling behind the cost of living means that we will start to see the burden on our credit cards increase.
The heavier the debt burden the greater the personal strain that we experience and the harder it becomes to work smarter, earn faster and pay off the debt.  [...]

What a topic to write about!  This happened to me in Spring 2007 and with the benefit of time and hindsight it is something I should have accepted months before it happened.
I was busy trying to do too many things to be able to focus on the few that were important and in the end [...]

A few days ago I was lucky enough to have been a delegate at the UK Crime Literature Festival.  Based in Harrogate at the beautifully refurbished Crown Hotel, the event was a packed four days of talks, discussions and panel interviews.  Sponsored by Theakstons Brewery, who funded this years Crime Book award.  More about this [...]