The Blog
The emotions, actions and thought processes of my creative work.
This is where I share what I’m doing and why, how I’m thrashing out problems and what I’m trying to achieve.
Trusting The One Thing You Can Control
This post was first sent to my newsletter subscribers, and I thought I’d share it here as lots of people found it was what they needed to hear at the start of the year. If you’d like to get more pep talks like this to your inbox once a month (as well as a reading/listening list of resources) then you can sign up to my mailing list here
Create The Product *You* Want To Buy
Whenever we want to create something new in our business, we tend to start with ‘what do people want?’. This is good! In fact, you might go so far as to say that it’s a pretty hard and fast rule of business ownership – create products that your customer really wants. Do surveys and research and put together their suggestions with your know-how and hey presto! But sometimes, business ownership means breaking the rules…
The Power of ‘Being’ vs ‘Having Goals
It seems trite to say it, but goals are important. They help you keep an eye on where you’re taking your business (and your life!), they translate your dreams into actions and they are a motivational force. I don’t think anyone is under any doubt that setting goals is a Good Thing.
2019 Year Review: The ‘Difficult Second Album’ Year
Sometime around October the thought struck me: “boy, my year in review is going to be quite an epic this year.” My year bounced from burn out to heartbreak to bereavement; I made £20k less than I did last year; I spent a lot of the year not trusting myself, not committing to decisions and flip-flopping over every little thing.
My Course Creation Process
Creating an e-course can feel like an overwhelming piece of work – developing the idea into an outline, spending weeks or months writing the course content, deciding whether to use video or images or slides or whatever else, figuring out the tech to deliver the course, and then all of the selling or marketing.
Five Struggles In My Business, And How I’m Working Through Them
As I’ve been working on my new course The Playbook, I’ve been reflecting on what struggles I’ve experienced in the last year of my business. I think it’s natural that as you work through something to help others, you start to reflect on where you yourself needed help and what walls rose up in front of you as you made your way through the business wilderness.
What My Working Week And 4 Hour Days Look Like
“It’s rare I work more than four hours a day.” The words came out of my mouth quite nonchalantly; it was, after all, the truth of my day to day in my business.
Using ‘Carrots’ To Stick To Your Marketing Plan When You’re Low On Motivation
If you read last week’s post you’ll have seen that I’ve been struggling with indecision and demotivation over recent weeks.
Experiencing ‘The Fear’ In My Business
Here’s the truth: I’ve got ‘The Fear’. The fear of showing up and being visible with my work, the fear of talking about what I do, the fear of creating anything new.
A 3 Step Process To Lose The Dread Of ‘I Have To’
Something I encounter pervasively is the feeling we ‘have to’ do something in our business that feels draining or just ‘not right’. This is not just in the women I work with, but also within myself – I really feel the weight of expectation and duty without remembering to really question it.
A 6 Month Business Check In
As I wrote to my Monthly Mail subscribers this month, June is a good time to take stock on our year. As I wrote then, “It’s always useful to take occasional bird’s eye views on the state of our businesses, to take a climb up the mountain and survey the land below.
How I Got Out Of A Financial Rut
If you read the post The Problem With Intention a few weeks ago, you’ll know that in April I had a financial dip – my worst month in business since I started.
Can You Start A Business Before You’ve Got A Product Or Service?
I was asked this question directly, but have also seen variations of it wafting around the internet: “can I start a business when I don’t know what I want to do yet?”
How To Prioritise Better by Writing Your Job Description
One of the big problems we all come up against running our own businesses is knowing (and sticking to!) what our actual job is.
Getting Through An Identity Crisis In My Business
I’ve been having an identity crisis in my business. I can’t pinpoint precisely when it started, but for about the last six months something’s felt…off. Like I wasn’t doing what was right, like I was building something that worked for everyone but me.
How I Deal With Comparison Online
There will never be a time when the title of this post isn’t relevant. Whether you’re busy or quiet, positive or frustrated, focused or distracted, comparison can jump on you at any given moment.
Inside A Failure
We need to talk about failure. We need to normalise it, to take away that paralysing fear of it. We live in a world where gurus leap at any chance to talk about sold out launches and six figure businesses, where the most visible people and products are the traditionally “successful” ones, and where success is publicly ranked by numbers next to a username and underneath a photograph.
A Letter To Those Who Think 'That's Not For People Like Me'
Come join me out here on the balcony. Not just the physical one (although you’d be very welcome), but the metaphorical one too – a romanticised space, jutting out on a limb from the ‘normal’ structure where faith and trust is needed that when you step out there it will hold you aloft and not send you falling to the floor.
Where To Focus And Prioritise Your Attention In Your Business
Whenever I open up a call for questions, I get lots which are along a similar theme: what do I first, what’s the most important thing, where should I be focusing? We all want a specific place to start in order to know that we’re doing all the right things in all the right places.