Maintaining a work/life balance is easy when you run your own business right? You typically work from home and you have no one else to answer to, so it should be easy to switch off. WRONG! Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. In fact, many home-based sole traders struggle to strike a healthy work/life balance because the lines are more …
Running your own business can sometimes feel like you are in that constant state of high-alert, you’re continually in “fight or flight”, and people around you see you as stress out of constantly “wired.” You can’t seem to settle or sit down and you’re constantly on the go. People rely in you to do stuff, everything is on your shoulders, …
There’s nothing more satisfying than silencing your phone, turning it over, and dozing off again—especially when it’s chilly Monday morning. It’s freezing outside, and you’d sooner skip breakfast than leave your warm bundle of blankets. Don’t worry, we’re all guilty of doing this from time to time – no judgement here!
There is so much on social media from people either claiming they are earning 6 or 7 figures or they can help you achieve 6 or 7 figures. In my experience many business owners simply want to earn a consistent £5k a month (profit)! There aren’t many I know who really need more than that! I know it sounds counter …
For me, the idea of meditating took some warming up to. I saw it as a new age hoo-ha, and I don’t think you can blame me! But after years of rave reviews from friends, colleagues and clients, I decided to give it a go. Surprisingly, the area in my life that has reaped the most reward has been my business! I can honestly say it has changed my life!
There’s no doubt that Marmite has split the population. As the saying goes, you either love it or hate it! As a business coach, it speaks volumes to me that their brand name gets used in common parlance. Talk about clever marketing!
It’s that time of the year… 2 days to go until we close the door on 2018 and open up to the excitement and endless possibilities of 2019.
Clearly like everyone else, I’ve taken some time out to review 2018 and set some time aside to clearly consider the coming year. I did all the business planning weeks ago, but I wanted to set some time aside for me to consider my personal direction for 2019.
It’s that period between the hype of Christmas and New Year. Typically busy in my household as it’s my husband’s birthday on the 27th, so when you’re starting to think about stopping with all the excesses we have another celebration. So I manage to carve out some reflection time to evaluate what worked and what did not! In 2018 I had some great wins and some EPIC failures.
So as we approach the end of the year, it’s been really powerful to take some time to reflect and take the learning – always the learning.
From the outside it’s easy to project this glossy image of what being a successful business owner is like, the travel, the laptop lifestyle, the great reviews and brilliant client successes. But it’s important to me that to be transparent. As it not all lap top lifestyle and sunny postings.
I loved writing this blog as it’s a subject close to my heart. Here’s my 6 business survival tips to get you through the Christmas holidays without losing your mind or your business. Believe me I have more tips but didn’t want to blow your mind with all of them! I had two little people, a full time self employed job and being a single mum …
I was yearning for the FEA Carrie Green planner last year – I had total FOMO! It seemed expensive, I left it too late and then missed out. She sold out – brilliant marketing, beautiful planner. So this year I was determined, determined to bag it. I knew I had ordered it, months ago…. Even then, when people started …