Ever experienced any of these situations? someone that you thought would support you, betrayed you so hard it took your breath away you gave it everything in a sales conversation and they still said, “no we don’t want it” you were blanked by someone at a networking meeting your social media post was ignored, criticized or ridiculed Rejection. OUCH! It …
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One of the biggest blocks we encounter as small business owners is fear. Not many of us want to face it or even realise it’s there in us. Instead our fear shows up as procrastination, avoidance activities, boredom, confusion and even arrogance. If this is you, trust me, you can manage it and deal with it. You are not alone. Let me …
Flashback! I was feeling stuck. My mission was to secure new UK customers for my client in Sweden within a few months. The problem was I had zero contacts and the product was not favoured in the UK. I had limited time available to get a result and no idea where to start. Why oh why had I agreed to take on this mammoth task? I now had to rise to the challenge or admit defeat…
So I gave myself an annual gift of taking the whole of August off and I absolutely LOVED it. This is the third year I have decided not to work during August and this year I had a strong urge to read and learn as well as chill out.
My coaching clients who are just starting out on their projects often have these questions racing around in their heads: Can I really do this? Is it realistic for me to do this? Is it too risky? These are sensible questions of course, but once all the background research is done and some plans are laid, if these questions are …
Our imagination is a very powerful thing. How we think things will go can have a lot more impact on the results we get than we realize. It’s vital to take some time to pause and create in our mind’s eye what we really want. In fact, it goes beyond seeing through our mind’s eye, we also need to imagine …
It all started with this great video I saw on TED – below. It’s well worth a watch. It tells the story of a New York ad agency CEO who takes a year off every seven years.
