Monthly Archives: September 2008

If You Don’t Treat Yourself Well And Make Yourself Happy…

...then why should anyone else and who else will? Quick post to say "thanks" for putting up with completely off-topic posts (at least when it comes to 'Success rocks!') over the past few weeks/months and that things will now be back on track here having finally got my life back. Went for a facial and hot ...

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When Saying No Means Saying Yes

Do you feel intensely uncomfortable saying "no" to people? Yeah, me too usually. It's often because saying "no" means creating conflict and whilst I'm one of the most argumentative people I know (I love arguments - ahem, sorry "discussions" - just ask Jonathan), I don't often like saying "no" to people and disappointing them. Lately though I've ...

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How Unhealthy Sleeping Habits Will Harm Your Blogging and Business Success

If you're reading this after midnight, then this post applies to you; if you regularly stay up past midnight to write blog posts, then this post applies to you. And if you generally stay up gone midnight because you find those are you most productive hours, then this post definitely applies to you! If you do ...

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Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Image credit: starfire

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Running A Full Time Business Whilst Doing A Full Time Job

If you're in a full time job but working your butt off to build up your own business and escape the cubicle, I know exactly what you're going through (although my business is already up and running). Unfortunately for the past 2 months, I've let my business go. Completely. Not by choice, carelessness or incompetence ...

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Work Life Balance in Management Consulting. No Chance.

Long time no blog...and I'm exhausted. After twice working past midnight this week and with a full weekend of work ahead of me, it's a good job there's only 3 weeks of this project left otherwise I might just kill someone. This experience is a far cry from the work/life balance promise of my temporary employers ...

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How We Keep Clients Happy – A Husband and Wife Tag Team

Alongside the challenging project for my job recently, at Kinetiva we've also been working with several challenging clients who've been keeping us on our toes. [Quick update on the challenging project: Only a few more weeks to go (4.5 to be precise) and the previously difficult client is transformed. Chit chat, suggesting dinner together and ...

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