If there's one effective method to prevent new ideas, it's spending lots of time by ourselves. This is less of an issue in larger companies with dozens of departments, but for small businesses, it's especially challenging to stay stimulated just off your own ideas every day. You...
Have you ever started something and not finished it? Perhaps you finally decided to delve into a chunky classic novel, or tried to learn a new language. Or maybe you tried to lose a few kilos and shake up your diet. If you didn't manage to finish...
Reading the news is a grim daily exercise. As cases and deaths continue to be announced in Victoria and state borders remain firmly shut to most of the country, it's difficult not to mourn the lifestyle we used to have. That's OK. Nothing can ever prepare...
It's been a tough year. In trying times we've learned to adopt various coping strategies to deal with all the stress and negativity floating around. Many of us will have used this period to take stock of what's most important to us. Family and friends are most...
Blended was recently very fortunate to have entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist and all-round top bloke Phillip Di Bella as a guest on our podcast, The Office Guys. We learnt a great deal from Phil, including his inspiring story of weight loss and how he turned a small...
2020 has been the most disruptive year for kids at school. After starting a new term in January, they had to spend weeks at home only a few months later. Victorian students,t in particular, have felt the brunt of rapid change. Yo-yoing between going to school...
When you think of the "perfect workplace culture", what springs to mind? Do you think of an office full of people working as efficiently as possible without fuss? Or perhaps you think more of a place where employees have more freedom to be creative at the...
In years to come, we'll look back on the COVID era as the most disruptive time of our lives. In only five months, practically everything has changed. The pandemic has taken a toll ofn all of us, but we learn the most about ourselves in a...
You may have heard that a particular product is so good it sells itself. Not literally of course, but this amazing, life-changing product is so good that you don't need to try to sell it because people will buy it anyway. Take the iPhone for example....
This blog has written a lot about feeling overwhelmed, tired, stressed and disoriented, and with good reason. 2019 feels like a lifetime ago and we're all dealing with the new reality, willingly or not. Seven months into this crazy year, it doesn't look like things will improve...