Category Archives: On Goals & Achievements

The Never Ending Quest To Get (More) Things Done: Is This The Answer?

For any entrepreneurial, work-from-home parents out there - or those of you with other responsibilities except yourselves - it will probably come as no great surprise when I admit that we're still struggling to find a routine or schedule which lets us do everything we want to (I know, it probably doesn't exist but we ...

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Look Before You Leap (Into The World of Entrepreneurship)

Can you remember a time when you worked for someone else and thought to yourself, "I cannot wait to work for myself, then I won't have to deal with my nagging boss, annoying clients or [fill in the blank]"? And then you launched into the world of entrepreneurship and running your own business and now you ...

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Jealousy & Why It’s Not All That Bad

Most people will tell you that jealousy is an ugly emotion. They prefer to say that they're "envious" rather than jealous because it sounds nicer (I know, because that's what I do too!). But honestly, sometimes when you sit down and look at what others have going on in their world and then you look at ...

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Hiring A Coach Or Mentor: 3 Tips To Make It A Success

A few people have asked me this question recently - and asked for my advice on who to hire and whether it's 'worth it'. I'd have to say that it very much depends what you want to achieve. I've worked with several mentors and coaches over the past few years - it's not something I regret ...

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Do You Have The Confidence To Live Your Own Life?

I look around me on my blogs, in my online networks, in my inbox and amongst my friends and family and notice that... People often don't live their own lives - they live the lives their parents mapped out for them, or the lives they think they *should* be living or the lives that their friends ...

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The Benefits of Marinading

This isn't - contrary to the title - a post about sauces or marinading! It is however a post about knowing what's "right" and letting it just come to the surface in its own good time. It's a strategy I've employed to good effect over the past few months which so far has helped me solve ...

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Establishing Successful Habits

If you read many of the books and manuals on success and by "successful" people, you'll notice a few things that set the most successful people apart from the rest. One of these is the cultivation of successful habits - activities that successful people do on a regular basis. The thing that some people don't realise ...

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Coming Full Circle: Blogging Clients

It's funny how things often come full circle; we recently completed a blog project for one of my previous mentors who's really the one to blame for unleashing my inner blogging demon. Although I'd started a blog previously, it was Nicola who encouraged me to focus it more on promoting the business I was running at ...

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The Point About “The Secret” That Most People Miss

There's been so much stuff written about The Secret over the past few months that I'm not going to labour the point. There's one thing about it though that almost everyone misses (or at least those who try it once or twice then dismiss it because it doesn't work). Many people have talked about "action" being the ...

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