Kitten or Cat – What Should Your Company Be? (2 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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A kitten is cute – everyone loves kittens! They’re so playful and inquisitive, and literally into everything – and they can move so fast! Really, they’re like cats, but friendlier, more fun, and, well, just a whole lot cuter and easier to love.

Be More Dog: 10 Ways Leaders Teach Business (4 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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Who needs a business MBA, or any of the hundreds of “tips for success” books when you can learn all you need to know about business from a dog? (Plus have a companion on those blow-away-the-cobwebs walks.)

It’s Not the Best Thing About You (1 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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For one reason or another, I’ve had contact with a LOT of people in the “motivation” industry. Some have been very good at what they did, with a level of perception that went beyond mere psychology.

Don’t React. Act. (3 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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It’s been a rough ride recently – the Pulse shooting in Orlando, and, the other side of the pond, the shooting of UK Member of Parliament Jo Cox at her constituency offices.

The Consumer Doesn’t Have Time for Your Advertising (2 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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Yesterday, I ordered a Christmas gift for my wife on the spur of the moment – it wasn’t something I’d  even thought of before, and I wasn’t actually looking for gifts – we celebrate a little differently, as our focus is on Yule, and personal reflections associated with our belief system – we buy, typically, one or two gifts for each other, and that’s it. And I’d already sorted gift-buying – or so I thought!

Fear as a Friend? (1 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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Businesses tend to fall into one of two categories; those who shout “Feel the fear – and do it anyway!” and those who take extensive, exhausting, painstaking steps to eliminate even the possibility of fear. Of risk.

When the Worst Happens (2 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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Often, when you find yourself living your “worst case scenario”, well-meaning people will tell you to “focus on the positives”, to “remember the parts of the journey so far that you enjoyed, and plan for the better times ahead.”

Be Enduring (1 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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It can sometimes seem as though rich folk profit from everything – if there’s a crisis, some guy will have made a whole chunk of change betting on it.

But success in the financial markets is temporary – mainly because, once you’ve tasted success, of any kind, you always want more – and, in the markets, that means you will, eventually, inevitably, lose.

The Charge Your Business Needs (3 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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Put those “(Insert Number Here) Steps to A Blast-Off Business/Brand You/Success” books down – you don’t need “positivity” to succeed!

Wait – don’t go rushing off to buy your “Grumpy Old Man/Woman” mug and t-shirt, either, because traditional, stereotypical negativity has never powered anything other than friends, supporters and customers away from you.

Do the Job You Didn’t Get (1 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ashley Ford-McAllister

Founder & Owner of: Negative is Also a Charge

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Business and Successful Living Writer

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So, you applied for a job, took a lot of time and effort with the application process, were really enthusiastic, had all the skills and experience required… And didn’t even make the interview.