This online business malarkey, it’s all about building relationships, getting influential people to respect and refer you, getting your twitter count up, and building a following who adore you and want to buy your products, right? Wrong. It’s all about you. There is excellent (and free) advice on the Internet about how to get started […]
6 Fantastic and Free Productivity Resources
It’s the final instalment of the Goals… (Goals)! Always Believe In Your Soul… Series, and I’m recommending some fantastic and free productivity resources to help you achieve your dreams. The list includes: Free productivity planners from Productive Flourishing – Charlie Gilkey Time Management For Creative People – Mark McGuinness How to Become an Early Riser […]
Goals Bonus Article: Get Ready For Your Calling
This bonus article is inspired by a good friend of mine who popped round for a cup of tea the other day before returning to Texas after a visit to Brighton to graduate from her degree course. We were talking about the (not so) New Year, our plans for 2010, and we got onto the […]
Goals Day Two: Ignoring Great Goals, Setting Dumb Ones…And How To Stop This
It’s the next belated article in the series of Goals…. (Goals)! …Always believe in your soul… Belated because as you may know, I’ve been flat hunting, working, organising a move as well as celebrating my birthday. I am however, determined to finish this series by the end of the week! This series is for anyone […]
Goals Day One: What To Do When You're Stuck On The Start Block
Article Series: Goals… (Goals)! Always Believe In Your Soul… It wouldn’t be January without a furore of goal setting. The blogosphere is alight with how to set and achieve your goals in 2010. We’re feeling enthused, excited and ready to take on the world. However, there are still plenty of obstacles out there to try […]
10 Things I Learned From a Year of Freelancing
Happy National Freelancers Day! I have it on good authority that today is National Freelancers Day from The Professional Association Supporting Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants (PCG). I must confess I only stumbled upon this resource and in fact this special day at the tail end of last week, but it does sound interesting. The PCG […]
How your competitors boost business by turning customers away
Turning customers away in a recession – insane no? Well, yes and no. Take two fictitious characters, Focused Fred and Pleasing Polly. They’ve both decided to start up their own businesses making tailored clothes. (I have no experience tailoring clothes so I may be rusty with some of the terminology – but should still work) […]
Celebrate BEFORE you get hit by a bus
Life is busy, particularly if you’re self employed or launching a new business. Down time can feel like wasted time and shutting off can seem impossible when there are proposals to prepare, research to do, statistics to analysis and numbers to crunch. This is a simple post to urge you to remember to take some […]
What's The Worst Thing That Could Happen (If You Try To Be Yourself?)
I’ve just returned from having lunch with a friend who is training to be a life coach. We’ve known each other over 10 years and we always laugh whether we’re lunching, coffee-ing or out drinking. I love our chats of late which are usually about self improvement and making fools of ourselves. Interestingly we were […]
The 10% Baby Step to Save Time
In hard times, it’s necessary to trim the fat and make sure that you or your business are operating as effectively as possible. Most people have heard of Pareto’s 80/20 principle which states that roughly 80% of results come from 20% of the effort. Many will find it hard to conceive jump down to such […]
