Mortgage Matters If you are lucky enough to have a Tracker Mortgage then do no more. Consider yourself fortunate that you’re “getting your own back” on the banks who were quick to sign people up for these mortgages a number of years ago. If you have a more traditional Repayment Mortgage, and if your cash …
Financial Freedom Forever. How to Stop Worrying about Money and Begin Living a Life of Financial Freedom – Today. A half day intensive workshop with Pádraic Ó Máille and Owen O Malley.
Dear Smácht Friend, Did you know that 95% of people who live to 65 are not financially independent? Earl Nightingale said this 50 years ago, and despite massive advances in technology and medicine, financial freedom continues to elude the vast majority of us today. It doesn’t have to be this way. In order for you …
What Fishing Can Teach You About Business and Life – April 13th 2012
‘A bad days fishing nearly always beats a great days working’. I never once went fishing with retailer par excellence, and current Chairperson of Galway City Business Association, Anthony Ryan without him beginning the day with the above toast. And I couldn’t agree more. Fishing has manifold benefits including: It provides you with space to …
This is your life. If you don’t like it, create a new ‘Manifesto’ – April 4th 2012
In the Summer of 2009, brothers Dave and Mike, together with their business partner Fabian, CHOOSE – readers of this blog know that you are always free to CHOOSE – to quit their jobs and do work they were passionate about. Their first task was to sit down on the steps of Union Square and …
One Great SHAG. Two Utterly Contrasting Outcomes – March 27th 2012
In deference to my Mother, who scours every screed I write, and to those of you reading my blog for the first time, let me hasten to clarify the precise meaning of the word SHAG. A SHAG is an acronym for a Smácht Hairy Audacious Goal – and everyone of you should have at least …
“If Life is a Game, These are the Rules – 10 Rules for Being Human” – 12th March 2012
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” (Helen Keller) The title and substance of this blog comes from the wonderful book of the same name by Cherie Carter-Scott. Each year I share it on my seminars and people always request it after. Post it up on your wall or …
Conversations with Achievers – Paul Kenny, Founder of Cobone
“You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?” ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah’ The first thing that strikes you about Paul Kenny is speed. Everything about him moves at a pace. As we communicate via Skype, between Galway and Dubai, he’s all over …
Create Web Copy That Sells. A Blueprint for Creating Killer Copy That Will Command Attention and Get Your Prospects to Buy – 7th March 2012
The above copy clearly failed to connect with the customer in any meaningful way. So also does the vast majority of the 200 million websites on the net that are clamouring for attention. What if there was a way that could convert 10%, 25% – even 50% more, of your website customers? What would it …
Six Doctors Who Might Just Help You Live to 100 – 28th February 2012
I don’t do superstition on Black Fridays. One magpie or two on the road – yes, but not Friday 13ths. On January 13th last therefore, it didn’t cost me a thought when I casually visited a GP for an innocuous medical for a life policy. I was even bold enough to suggest to him to …
Attitude Matters 10 Proactive Strategies to Create a Winning Attitude – Irrespective of the Recession, the Economy or the Weather – 23rd February 2012
‘There is very little difference between people. That difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it’s positive or negative’. Og Mandinho. Attitude is the number one prerequisite for success in any aspect of your life.In order to create and sustain a positive mental attitude apply the following strategies liberally and continually. 1.Become a “Conscious …