Do you know your key business numbers for last month, or do you get a wonderful surprise in your accounts at the year end? If you want to take control of your business, you have to live and breathe your numbers, and this isn’t just me being “an accountant”. I firmly believe that after your […]
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Welcome to our blog. Here we share our thoughts, our ideas and our pet peeves, all centred on business efficiency for entrepreneurs. Why? Because we are both ex-corporate employees, albeit on different continents, who have experienced the benefits of large scale efficiency programmes. But we are both also entrepreneurs, running our own small business, and […]
No 8 in my decade of solo business learning is – You need FOCUS to work for yourself. There’s lots of bright shiny objects to distract you, all cunningly disguised as being a busy business owner! When I wrote this, I was reflecting on distraction, and how easy it is to go down a rabbit hole when you work […]
You didn’t become great at what you do by accident. You became great at what you do with a mixture of talent, self-belief and consistent effort.
I often see small business owners in private groups, asking what steps they should take when hiring a coach or joining a mastermind group. Because I’ve just undertaken that very step, and because I’ve been burned in the past, and because I offer these services, so I know how I want my clients to feel, I thought I’d share my […]
We are only born with two instinctive fears: loud noises and falling. Every other fear is learned externally; by witnessing someone else’s fear or from our own life experiences. That said, I’m not sure a day goes by when fear does not enter my thinking in some form or other, and it’s not usually […]
It’s very easy as a Solo Business Owner to become very busy, very quickly. But busy does not always mean productive, and productive does not always mean efficient.
My daughter and I spent hours colouring when she was little. It was one of the things we did together. Uninterrupted time, that was almost meditative. She became very good and coloured within the lines too at quite an early age. I am a very proud mama! I was reflecting on that this morning, thinking […]