Get the basics right

I saw Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares for the first time…thanks to Richard. It made me realise two simple things: 1) Get the basics right. You make your way up from the bottom there is no shortcut to get to the top…so get the basics right and then work your way up… 2) Never get a [...]

A small Direct debits tip

I had a trivial thought yesterday while walking towards the station…what if you change all your direct debits to go out of your account on the 1st of every month. I know a lot of people already do that but then there are a lot who do not. This will ensure that you know how [...]

Success and time available are directly related

Going back to Trizle’s post where I got mentioned by very kind Andrew… I believe that being able to accomplish a task (which in this context is referred to as ‘Success’) has a close relationship with the time available to do that task because sometimes one is completely stuck in something which takes longer than [...]

Quote of the day

“Citius, Altius, Fortius” – “Swifter, Higher, Stronger” Baron De Coubertin

How to find the best customers

I just saw this post on Trizle and here’s how I think you can find and look after the best customers. Mr W runs a restaurant and because he is a very astute person requests his customers to fill in a small feedback form with their details (name and address) and general comments. He uses [...]

Sayo nara hideous urls

I have managed to get rewrite urls to work for this blog. It was not difficult at all but I was just being lazy (not a GTD attitude I know)…so no more of “index.php?p=12″ in the url instead you will be presented with a pretty url for example “sayo_nara_hideous_urls/14″ (more meaningful and is same as [...]

Grind my gears

I do not understand why customer facing organisations run without any prior resource planning. For some reason all the bank employees were participating in some mass exodus at about 13:30… or they were just busy not doing anything…contemplate the following scenario: 1. Only two cashiers are serving in a bank with a capacity of eight… [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year I sincerely hope 2007 brings you all the joy, success and happiness that you were after in 2006. *(image taken from BBC)