If you're like me - and I know many of you are - you don't really have a straightforward answer to the question "What do you do?" Sometimes I wish I could straightforwardly say "I'm a teacher" or "I'm a doctor", but of course I'm very glad to be self-employed, and over the years I've figured out how …
10 tips on accountability for small business owners (from my own experience)
Have you ever noticed that you can get things done to other people’s deadlines (maybe you always get a client project finished right on time) but aren’t very good at sticking to deadlines you’ve set yourself? If so, welcome to the club! That is me to a tee - Gretchen Rubin calls me an Obliger - and …
19 tasks for 2019 – in business and life
I had lots of fun with my list of 18 tasks for 2018 and it seems only natural to me that I will repeat the process for 2019 - for me, it's an important way of introducing some balance into my life and also to keep a few key tasks literally in front of me throughout the year - this list will be stuck …
Reviewing 2018 – especially my varied income sources
Now that I've finished work for the year, I can turn my attention to a favourite activity - reviewing how work went this year! I guess it's a throwback to my number-loving self (the one that studied maths at university ...), but I love delving into the statistics of my business and learning …
Why my masterminders love belonging to mastermind groups …
(Full information on my mastermind groups here!) This year I've been getting enormous pleasure from running mastermind groups for small business owners, writers and other creatives here in Perth - and I've also learnt a lot from running these masterminds, as I wrote about recently. And on top of …
Reporting back on my 18 things in 2018 list
Around this time last year, I wrote up my list on 18 things I wanted to do in 2018, and it has been stuck on my fridge ever since, where I see it as I'm standing waiting for the microwave to heat something. In other words, I see it pretty often. I am learning that's the key to getting myself to do …