Tag Archives: 'planning'

Starting your own business: 10 Truths Experts Wont Tell You

Starting your own business: 10 Truths Experts Wont Tell You

I want you to know something. Starting your own business is wonderful. You wake up when you want, work from where you want and never have to sit through a boring-ass ‘weekly planning meeting’ EVER AGAIN. [...]

A Blank Piece of Paper: 5 steps to the life you want

A Blank Piece of Paper: 5 steps to the life you want

I write this from New Zealand where I have had to quickly come due to the sudden death of my father. Being so far away from my London home, friends, business and the routine of life [...]

Avoiding the feast or famine trap

Avoiding the feast or famine trap

It often seems that it’s the destiny of the independent professional to exist in a constant state of feast or famine. Either you are working day and night to keep up with client demands, or you’re [...]

5 Simple Tips to Ensure You’ve Always Got Time for your Marketing

5 Simple Tips to Ensure You’ve Always Got Time for your Marketing

Tick-tock, tick-tock! Have you ever found yourself saying that you’ll get round to doing some Marketing ‘when you have more time’? That you’ve just got too much else on your plate at the moment, what with [...]

7 Procrastination Busters

7 Procrastination Busters

Procrastination happens to all of us and we find it frustrating and a difficult barrier to overcome, especially when it ‘hits’ right before a big event or when a project just has to get done or [...]

10 Time Management Tips to Increase Productivity

10 Time Management Tips to Increase Productivity

The importance of time management is never taken seriously by most people till they end up in a crisis situation. With good time management it will be possible to balance your work, reduce stress and increase [...]

10 Ways to Get Your Marketing Unstuck

10 Ways to Get Your Marketing Unstuck

Have you ever found yourself knowing exactly what you need to do about marketing your business… and then not doing it? You are not alone. Many self-employed professionals find that the hardest part of marketing isn’t [...]

Balance your business and your life with Office: 10 ways to get an hour back

Balance your business and your life with Office: 10 ways to get an hour back

Maintaining a healthy work/life balance is the biggest single factor in business owners’ definition of success. This is the perhaps surprising result of a recent survey from the Enterprise Council on Small Business. Admittedly this is [...]

Business Strategy Fundamentals

Business Strategy Fundamentals

Over the years, I have met and worked with literally hundreds of business owners. At one time or another, many of them have written a business plan. But very few of them have a working business [...]

How to Summit Life’s Everyday Mountains

How to Summit Life’s Everyday Mountains

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ~Confucius Last week I sat on top of Mt. Shasta, a 14,179 foot mountain in Northern California. It was my first real summit and [...]