Tips and guides around planning for your business or your career
The New Year is always a good time to plan for the year ahead. But it doesn’t have to be all about fresh starts and good intentions. As a business owner, business planning is vital whether it’s planning to continue with something that was successful the previous year or evaluating what could have been better. From here […]
A lot of the time, especially in January, people get excited about new goals, but then normal life quickly takes over. Before you know it, it’s Christmas again, and you’ve forgotten about the things you wanted to do. So today I’m going to show you how to make a vision board. Because unless you take some
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Well, didn’t the year whizz by? In a month’s time, a lot of people will be talking about New Year’s resolutions; I actually don’t think those are very productive, but that’s a different blog post. That said, business can slow down in December and you hopefully have a break planned. That makes this a very
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I’ve always been very inspired by the Olympics and Olympians in particular. Their determination is incredible. They make immense sacrifices to go for gold but when they win any medal it all seems worth it. That got me thinking about how to win gold at life. In a way, life can be a bit like
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After the shocking results of the EU referendum and the ensuing panic and chaos, I couldn’t help but think of this well known phrase: failing to plan is planning to fail. You see, in my opinion, the biggest problem of the leave campaign was that they didn’t have a plan for what they would do if
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I don’t know about you, but I’m really in the Christmas mood: I’ve been sitting writing my cards, listening to Christmas music and eating mince pies. I love this time of year: the parties, watching sloppy films, eating lots of nice food and most of all remembering people you’ve not been in touch with and
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This month started with a family emergency that meant I had to go to Holland unexpectedly for some time. It got me thinking about systems and processes in place in a business – especially a very small business where the owner does everything. In a larger business there’s often someone else to take over for
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One of the biggest mistakes you can make, in my view, is to just plod along, working away with a simple maxim like ‘I want to increase sales this year’ – because guess what, you’ll never find time for the things you really want to do. Whether in your personal life or your business, I
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I’m just back from an amazing holiday in Australia that we spent years planning and saving for. We saw koalas and kangaroos, drove along the Great Ocean Road, walked in the Blue Mountains and had the most fantastic ever New Year’s Eve in Sydney harbour. Choosing what to do for NYE had been a bit
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My husband said in his wedding speech that I planned the event with military precision. Now it’s Christmas and we’re off to the other side of the world – you can bet I’ve been planning for both these events in the same way. Whatever you’re organising in your business or personal life, I absolutely believe
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