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After 8 months of rescheduling my brother, sister and I made it to the vast and grand Blue Mountains, staying in a great Medlow Bath house overlooking the Megalong Valley. Up and out on Saturday for abseiling, canyoning and the mandatory bush walking to get in and out...

Our Double Bay BNI Chapter opened on Tuesday the 23rd of September and in attendance were close to 75 enthusiastic business people with the 25 members and 50 guests, there was plenty of energy and card swapping from 6.30am till past 9am. BNI is new to me and continues...

I recently attended Xerocon for the second year and Xero is at the centre of the Cloud Accounting Package (“CAP”) revolution.   All you need is a CAP; Internet enabled device and Internet access to take advantage. Take for example one client who...

Take advantage of the world's best form of advertising... word-of-mouth! BNI members in Australia reported to BNI that they generated more than $280 million of business referrals through their participation in the past 12 months. In that same period BNI members...

We recently organised a couple of relay teams for the Maximium Adventure Race in Akuna Bay on Saturday August 16 and we had a great day out; Akuna Bay and its surrounds in Kuringai Chase National Park is a beautiful part of the world and I can not get to enough! The...

I attended Xerocon on 21 and 22 August and the Xero ecosystem as they call it; with Xero accounting software in the middle and the other add on business applications continues to grow, expand and improve! The improvement in the last few years not only in accounting...

I started doing yoga a few years ago for body maintenance so I could continue to do other sports and maintain some flexibility! I now do hot yoga about once a week at Hom Yoga for the original reasoning, as a detox, de-stress and as a physical work out in itself; the...

Last month, I was fortunate enough to present our first SMSF Summit with Paul Sonntag (Aquus Property Group) and Neil Sheather (AG Stockbroking Limited) in Sydney and the Gold Coast. We recorded a few minutes of each of our presentations so that we could show other...

I come across this article recently by Peter Reaburn (PhD), and found it to be an interesting read. I thought it would be an interesting read over the weekend for my clients and friends. "Both bitter experience and published research have both shown us that older...

An interesting article was recently published by Mike King from Motley Fool. Here the article is in its entirety: If you ever needed yet another reason to start your own self-managed super fund (SMSF) – here it is. According to Rice Warner, SMSFs have...