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Happy Start Up: How To Set Boundaries + Get More Balance
Today’s happy start up email shares how I set boundaries for my business after reaching burnout struggling to please everyone and putting myself last. If you’ve ever found yourself replying to client emails at midnight, working through the night to meet deadlines or spending your whole weekend on social media, this is for you. Today’s [...]
8 Tips for the Time Poor
This post is by guest contributor Viv Smith of Poppy Sparkles. She creates lasting pieces of birthstone jewellery that are fresh and contemporary with a classic style, making them pieces to love, wear and cherish. Today, Viv’s sharing her top tips to move your business forward, even if you are short of time- Isa If you’re [...]
Happy Start Up: How To Overcome Perfection Paralysis
Is being a perfectionist stopping you reaching your goals? Do you worry about releasing your next big thing into the world because it’s not perfect yet? For years, held myself back from reaching my potential because I was worried I would be disappointed if the outcome wasn’t perfect. I feared I wasn’t good enough and instead of [...]
What Will Smith Can Teach Us About Business Strategy
When Will Smith decided to take his fledgling movie career to the next level he didn’t just accept the next film that came his way. He worked out what he wanted to achieve (“to be the biggest movie star in the world”) and researched the industry so he could devise a strategy that worked for him. He didn’t stop at [...]
Happy Start Up Email Series
Last year I started a blog series called the Happy Start-Up. I wanted to show how you can start a business without the stress and ick-iness that is usually associated with taking such a huge leap. That time, my intention was to have you follow along on the blog and learn from my journey starting [...]
Start By Knowing Who You Are
It’s liberating when you finally realise you have the power to decide what to do with your life. But how do you decide what it is you want to do in the first place? Not everyone knows what they want to do right from the get go. You might be conflicted between what you think [...]
Break The Rules + Achieve What You Really Want
Every time I’ve achieved success in my life it’s been when I haven’t followed the rules or conformed to what others expect of me. I started my first business with a 30 cents listing on Etsy, I had no products and no real plan and I just got started because I had to. At university, [...]
Cheerleading and Truth-telling
Photo source: Mommy Om A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to be part of a fantastic event here in Portland; the Mother of Reinvention conference for female entrepreneurs. As a panelist, the topic totally captivated me; the notion that as women, we constantly reinvent ourselves; as wives, mothers, friends, or as entrepreneurs. We [...]
How To: Tackle Holiday Overwhelm
Overwhelm. Chaos. Pressure. Stress. We all experience it from time to time in our businesses, but when something big starts heading our way, like the holidays, it’s almost a given that those feelings are going to surface. They’re never welcome. They certainly aren’t good for us or our business, but there’s a way to deal [...]
Overcoming Fear
From my own experience, if I aim for something that seems beyond my reach , the first emotion I feel is fear. Fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of my own anger at myself if I don’t at least try it! What helps me to get overcome this fear is to first -set [...]
