life of a business owner

My favourite time of the year is here: review and reflection! I diligently keep up my stats and tracking throughout the year, ready for this moment (well, and for tax time, too). Regular readers will know I decided long ago NOT to be one of those niched, sharply-focused businesses - that just …

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For many years, I have coveted a standing desk. Or even better, a desk that I can use both sitting and standing. On days when I don't have clients, I can spend many hours at my desk, and although I jump up regularly to get a cup of tea, scratch the cat or just to sprint up and down the corridor …

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You might have seen (well, back in January!) lots of people doing this - you might have even done it yourself - picking a word to represent what your goals are for the year. I don't do this every year, but my peer mastermind group members were doing it and I decided I would too. So what's my word …

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Think back a couple of weeks. How was your Valentine's Day this year? Flowers and chocolates from a significant other? Well, mine was different to that. My sister owns a florist and this year, like last year, I agreed to join her delivery driving force for the day. Driving around all day with …

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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 …

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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 …

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