As of today, September 12th 2011, you have exactly 100 days to the year end. Think about it. You can achieve one heck of a lot in that period if you simply have the SMÁCHT. The following questions, straight out of the Smácht body of knowledge, will take no more than 5 minutes daily to …
Smacht Blog – Why 95% of People are Broke at 65? – 11th July 2011
Why 95% of People are Broke at 65? 1. They never clearly define what Financial Freedom is. 2. They rarely make it an absolute ‘must’. 3. They are unaware of the Ice Berg Factor – the fact that rich people think like rich people and poor people think like poor people. 4. They are surrounded …
Smacht Blog – How an Ice Berg Can Keep You Poor, Out of Shape and Lonely? – 4th July 2011
I’d like to introduce you to Ice Berg. He lives in the North Pole but is totally fed up with the weather there and the loneliness. He’s heard the craic in Galway is mighty and for years now he’d love to move there, but despite his best efforts it just never happens. You see, as …
Conversations with Achievers, Owen O’Malley. Founder of TICN. By Padraic O Maille.
‘By the age of sixty five 95% of people worldwide are either dead or dead broke’. Owen O’Malley Owen O’Malley was not the first to identify with such an alarming statistic. Way back in 1956, Earl Nightingale revealed in ‘The Strangest Secret’ that ‘if you take 100 individuals who start even at the age of …
Smacht Blog – Monday 30th May – Five Great Ways to Grab Your Audiences Attention and Be Remembered
What have Pippa Middleton, Barack Obama and Pope John Paul 11 all got in common? Their presentations will be remembered long after they were delivered. The reverse is true with 95% of presentations. Think of the last meeting, sales call or presentation you attended. Was it memorable? Did it engage you? Did it stimulate you? …
Smacht Blog- The Only 4 Strategies You’ll Ever Need to Guarantee Massive Sales. Over and Over and Over Again. – 23rd May 2011
Think about it friends. On average, we spend 4 seconds scanning a page of a newspaper or a magazine or a printed medium. Each day I go straight to the rugby section of the Independent. My mother hares straight into the obituaries section and boy, does she do it due diligence! Every death from ‘Allen’ …
Smacht Blog – The Only Sentence You’ll Ever Need for Unprecedented Sales Success. – 16th May 2011
Frank Bettger was a legendary American baseball player when injury forced him to retire from the game back in 1907. As an Insurance salesperson for the following ten ‘miserable and disheartening months’, he was an unmitigated disaster. He failed abysmally to sell and this had a corresponding impact on his morale and attitude. ‘I was …
An Accountant Recalculates.
In his Conversations with Achievers series Padraic O Maille talks with Sister Colette, Mother Abbess of the Poor Clare Nun’s in Galway. Sr. Colette. From time to time it’s useful to reflect on the meaning of life. The environment you choose to do so in greatly influences the outcome. Some choose therapy. Others, Lough Derg. …
Conversations with Achievers – Padraic O Ceidigh
Inadvertently, while walking in his wife’s family place one Christmas day, he stumbled upon a half-finished runway. Contrary to everyone’s advice, including the man who owned the business, Padraig bought Aer Arann.
Conversations with Achievers – Jimmy Sheehan
Zig Zigler once said that in business and life “it’s better to be a meaningful specific rather than a wandering generality”. In marketing we are obsessive about getting people to describe themselves in one word and I was now trying this out for size with Jimmy Sheehan, Founder and CEO of the Galway Clinic. Jimmy, …