The Top Tips Blog

It's funny where we find inspiration.

It can be when you're crashed out on the sofa watching one of those programmes where someone struggles against adversity and somehow their challenge just clicks ...

Here’s one of my favourite tips to help you regain more time.

Whatever task you’ve got on your to do list, whatever job you’ve got lined up, simply don’t do it as well as you normally would. Put less...

You’re mistaken if you think this post is about Communication. It’s about Effective Communication.

There's a big difference between the two.

When you listen to someone talking or you read what they'...

I can't stress enough how important it is to be a great listener. Listening is the key skill for sales people, managers, negotiators, coaches, teachers and parents.

Everyone really.

I genuinely don'...

Some words just go together don’t they? If I said “Fish and . . .” most people would finish that simple phrase with the word “chips”.

Lots of words lead us on like this. Speak the last ‘missing’ word...

 Last week was the 100th Top Tips since I stopped using Mailchimp to send these emails and migrated to a different software. It doesn’t feel as though it can be that long but I’ve definitely written a...

Ages ago I wrote a Top Tip about Bob Mortimer and tomatoes. It was something about his mother only ever buying enough tomatoes for one day. 

If she only bought three then she would have a reason to g...

There’s a great line I want to share with you.

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” 

That’s a quote from Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Gal...

I used the MADE model yesterday to write a letter of complaint. It was on behalf of my mother who endured a torrid time on a recent holiday. 

I won’t go into the details of what happened and the comp...