Resisting Rest – why we don’t rest even when we know it’s what we need
I'm feet up, watching Netflix, and when I hear the sound of my husband’s car on the driveway, I jump up and switch the TV off. I was exhausted, feeling like an extra on The Walking Dead. I hadn’t slept through the night for months, waking up at 3 a.m. and finding...
The Myth of Busyness: Why success doesn’t have to mean constant doing
Being “busy” has been a badge of honour for many years. We’re surrounded by messages that equate busyness with productivity and worth, especially as women. We often try to balance life, business, and family responsibilities: from work deadlines to family obligations,...
How to trust yourself to make good decisions
Being able to make good decisions is one of the keys to growing a successful business. But decision fatigue is real; the more decisions you have to make each day, your ability to make decisions becomes worse. We’re faced with thousands of them every day, from the...
A simpler way to become a better decision maker
The number of choices you have to make each and every day can add up to the thousands, from what clothes you put on in the morning and what you eat for lunch to which email to respond to next or what meeting to prepare for. And if you also have a family household to...
Why doesn’t motivation work?
Everyone doubts themselves at some point in their business journey. Sometimes these feelings of fear and doubt can come from nowhere; one day, you feel great about your business growth plans, and then the next, you feel overwhelmed by your ever-increasing to-do list,...
Marketing with your cycle
Have you ever considered the timings of your monthly cycle when planning your business or deciding when to launch your next programme or speak at an event? (Yes, this article is written for women, but if you're a guy with women in your team, please read on because...
What does doing less look like?
What does doing less look like? This was a question someone asked me the other week as I write and talk a lot about the idea of doing less and slowing down. And I get that it can sound like a little abstract. Images of laying on the sofa, watching daytime TV and...
Menopause in business: The 7 rules for reshaping your business and the way you run your business around your perimenopause
Who’d have thought that there’d come a time that I would be writing an article about how to deal with the menopause in business?!I’ve become a woman-of-a-certain, even though when I look in the mirror I get a shock each time because the face doesn’t seem to reflect...
Caught in the P Cycle and the 3 reasons why you are not taking action
It’s tough to get going some days, isn’t it? Knowing what you should be doing … could be doing. You feel fit to burst with your ideas and energies on other days. You get on a roll and everything you do seems to go your way. But the longer you run your business and the...