It’s time to stop saying “I don’t know what I’m good at”. It’s time to stop discounting YOU and your accomplishments, wisdom, knowledge, and experience. Do this 8-minute exercise to reconnect with your awesome value.
I spent 5 years daydreaming about my Yorkshire Pudding street food stall. It was going to be great.
After a while of just talking about it, I got more serious and spent another year working on the business plan in my spare time. I told everyone about my dream.
I was determined to do it. As I said, I was serious.
As an entrepreneur and a control freak, I know that it's not natural to ask for help. We seek to demonstrate independence and show everyone that we can do it alone.
I want to share with you that one of the biggest lessons I have learnt over the years is how to ask for help.
For whatever reason, your current role is not making you happy anymore. Your priorities may have changed, your growth may have reached a plateau, or the environment may not suit you anymore.
Either way, you’ve decided you want to leave this job that you are currently doing, but you are not in a position to go just yet.
I hit 35 today. When I was younger I thought that 35 was ancient. Turns out it isn’t and I feel the same in my head as I did then. Just as silly. And just a little wiser.
To celebrate my birthday and 23 years in the working world (yes, I am a recovering workaholic and I have had a job since I was 12), I wanted to write some tips to the younger, rookie me based on what I know now.
Tell me if this sounds familiar? You are running your own independent business.
You want to get some customers, so you decide you need to do some marketing.
You start one thing, maybe create a Facebook page, then get the Instagram handle, then Twitter, ooh and then you book a Pinterest course, and sign up to learn about creating an Amazon shop.
This week I’ve found myself coming up against a few hurdles. I’ve got frustrated and annoyed that I’m not making the progress on the new projects that I have on my plan.
As a high achieving, recovering perfectionist, a lack of tangible delivery at the end of each day can be hard to take.
Unexpected events happen all the time. Let's call them curveballs.
Freak snowy weather, illness, broken boilers, job offers, deals cancelled, tax details, lost keys, new requests for business, surprise overseas visitors, resignations & redundancies are all just a few examples of the curveballs thrown within my client base this week.
In the “always-on” digital age we live in right now, there are some many ways to “work”. We are not just restricted to emails and meetings, we are connected to our work and colleagues across a multitude of formats, on screens, 24 hours a day.
You know the factors why it's not great for your productivity to work all the time, but you still do it. Finding yourself on your phone clearing your inbox at 10 pm or tinkering with that presentation until the early hours, means your balance is all out of sync.
Are you spending time and energy barking up the wrong tree?
How much time and energy this week have you spent trying to make a particular person happy [your boss / successful best friend / your old business partner / that colleague in the other department
Effective communication can only be measured on the result you get. Our communication skills and styles can work in our favour, or not, when getting our point across at work.
Great communicators have influence. And can make things happen.
Mindset is everything. Our brains can get us very excited about something, then screw us over very closely afterwards…read how you can learn to manage your mindset…
You know you want to make something happen. You’ve got a big goal in mind and a target to hit.
Something that will really help you if you do it. But you are super busy.
Your to-do list is never ending and despite hammering through it each day, ticking things off, rushing around, multi-tasking, at the end of each week you collapse exhausted and wonder what you’ve achieved.
I think this comes from spending many years working in marketing for brands where a specialist copywriter was always paid to write the words. The words that mattered.
Like the ones that go out to the consumer on marketing materials, like press ads, websites, leaflets, social media, etc.
It’s time to stop saying “I don’t know what I’m good at”. It’s time to stop discounting YOU and your accomplishments, wisdom, knowledge, and experience. Do this 8-minute exercise to reconnect with your awesome value.
When we proactively make a decision to pivot from the place we are now, to somewhere new, it can be overwhelming.
For most, our desire for growth is a constant, and our ability to hit our goals comes down to our approach.
Create a vision.
Remember that perfection is limiting.
Procrastination is not your friend.
Start by taking the first step.
Always act with the end in mind.
I spent 5 years daydreaming about my Yorkshire Pudding street food stall. It was going to be great.
After a while of just talking about it, I got more serious and spent another year working on the business plan in my spare time. I told everyone about my dream.
I was determined to do it. As I said, I was serious.
As an entrepreneur and a control freak, I know that it's not natural to ask for help. We seek to demonstrate independence and show everyone that we can do it alone.
I want to share with you that one of the biggest lessons I have learnt over the years is how to ask for help.
Have you noticed how some people experience work stress while others can just roll with it? Have you ever thought, why me?
Or, it’s not fair, how can everyone else do this sh*t and I’m just broken?
I know I have. I've been a right mess at times when you really care about something and you feel like you are pushing water up a big hill.
For whatever reason, your current role is not making you happy anymore. Your priorities may have changed, your growth may have reached a plateau, or the environment may not suit you anymore.
Either way, you’ve decided you want to leave this job that you are currently doing, but you are not in a position to go just yet.
I hit 35 today. When I was younger I thought that 35 was ancient. Turns out it isn’t and I feel the same in my head as I did then. Just as silly. And just a little wiser.
To celebrate my birthday and 23 years in the working world (yes, I am a recovering workaholic and I have had a job since I was 12), I wanted to write some tips to the younger, rookie me based on what I know now.
I’m sorry I lied….PIVOTS are not SLICK at all.
I want to be honest, the name of my company is false advertising.
Being brave and making a pivot is not easy or slick at all.You will experience many knock backs and wobbles along the way.
Trust me, I know. OK, after you’ve forgiven me for the lie!
When we set a goal to make a change, we tend to want to hit that goal as fast as possible.
I know I do. Especially if you are a high achiever, you are used to getting stuff done, and getting stuff done right. You want things NOW!
Tell me if this sounds familiar? You are running your own independent business.
You want to get some customers, so you decide you need to do some marketing.
You start one thing, maybe create a Facebook page, then get the Instagram handle, then Twitter, ooh and then you book a Pinterest course, and sign up to learn about creating an Amazon shop.
This week I’ve found myself coming up against a few hurdles. I’ve got frustrated and annoyed that I’m not making the progress on the new projects that I have on my plan.
As a high achieving, recovering perfectionist, a lack of tangible delivery at the end of each day can be hard to take.
Unexpected events happen all the time. Let's call them curveballs.
Freak snowy weather, illness, broken boilers, job offers, deals cancelled, tax details, lost keys, new requests for business, surprise overseas visitors, resignations & redundancies are all just a few examples of the curveballs thrown within my client base this week.
Starting a business comes with its own special brand of anxiety.
Like learning to ski later in life: it's exposing and there is a hefty fear of public humiliation.
Often even your closest friends and family – those stalwart cheerleaders – stand, bewildered in fear of a painful and possibly costly crash.
In the “always-on” digital age we live in right now, there are some many ways to “work”. We are not just restricted to emails and meetings, we are connected to our work and colleagues across a multitude of formats, on screens, 24 hours a day.
You know the factors why it's not great for your productivity to work all the time, but you still do it. Finding yourself on your phone clearing your inbox at 10 pm or tinkering with that presentation until the early hours, means your balance is all out of sync.
Are you spending time and energy barking up the wrong tree?
How much time and energy this week have you spent trying to make a particular person happy [your boss / successful best friend / your old business partner / that colleague in the other department
Effective communication can only be measured on the result you get. Our communication skills and styles can work in our favour, or not, when getting our point across at work.
Great communicators have influence. And can make things happen.
Here are some of the secrets
Mindset is everything. Our brains can get us very excited about something, then screw us over very closely afterwards…read how you can learn to manage your mindset…
Parting ways is a big part of your pivot. Here are some tips on how to manage those final months, weeks and days…
You know you want to make something happen. You’ve got a big goal in mind and a target to hit.
Something that will really help you if you do it. But you are super busy.
Your to-do list is never ending and despite hammering through it each day, ticking things off, rushing around, multi-tasking, at the end of each week you collapse exhausted and wonder what you’ve achieved.
I think this comes from spending many years working in marketing for brands where a specialist copywriter was always paid to write the words. The words that mattered.
Like the ones that go out to the consumer on marketing materials, like press ads, websites, leaflets, social media, etc.
Learn the six secrets great communicators use to influence in business and at work…