If you’ve recently started your own business it can be difficult to know where to draw the line between working all the time and making sure that you spend enough time on your personal life and with family. This couple profiled on the BBC website have some good tips for maintaining this work and life…
I was told in an email today, by a dear friend – using her words, ‘you are most definitely unemployable’! Thinking about it, she is right. I love to live my life my way, work the way I want to work, regularly ignore advice given by people who have never done anything themselves, enjoy my…
Excitement for the London 2012 Olympics is visible everywhere in London these days, but how do you enjoy the games when you have a business to run? You may even be one of the lucky ones and have a ticket to an event. Or you fear the interruption it will cause to your daily business…
Last night I watched a movie with my wife, and the actress in the movie kept on saying, “Life is in session”. What was the movie? No, seriously – it got me thinking about the whole life journey thing, what makes it interesting and what gives it meaning? It being Easter (obviously not enough work…
It must be Easter soon, or some other major holiday, because I’m thinking (or more dreaming in my case) about travelling and quite possible not coming back. You know what I mean, the sort of ‘ I’m going now and I maybe a while…’ holiday. But the reality is, you no longer need to abandon…
Today, I want to offer some advice to all my start up and micro-business owner fans on what advice not to take from silver tongued experts and gurus. I’m on the train. I’ve been at my publishers in London checking on new cover designs for the third edition of ‘Stripping for Freedom’ and before that…
There’s no doubt that being a Mum and running your own business has its challenges. I’ve been talking to a number of women recently who are doing just that (myself included) and one of the issues we struggle with most is finding a balance between family and business without losing the fact that we ourselves…
