(I first wrote this post in 2017 – but it’s full of such good advice I thought I’d update it!) Once upon a time in a lifetime far, far away I was a certified expert at chilling out. Pre-child I can vaguely recall a time when I could luxuriate in unlimited downtime. Well, unlimited outside…
Hey there lady-friend. Look, I’m not a big fan of new year’s resolutions. BUT today I’m going to share with you a promise I made to myself this time last year. I want it to be your commitment to yourself in 2018. I originally wrote this as part of email sequence I sent to my…
Do you have a self-employed single mum on your gift list this Christmas? Or perhaps you don’t know what to asked your loved ones for? Maybe you’d even like to treat yourself, I know I’m going to! Either way, I’ve got THE gift guide for you! Planners/stationery >> Full Focus Planner – my planner of…
OK today I’m sharing THE best piece of advice I was given when I was thinking about quitting my job to become self-employed. Start budgeting with YNAB. I’d posted in a Facebook group for freelancers and entrepreneurs asking for advice from any single parents in the group. I wanted to know how they coped financially…
“Just because my plan A didn’t work out didn’t mean plan B couldn’t be really kickass. In fact, who was to tell me that my life as a single mother couldn’t be completely wonderful.” When I read these words in Emma Johnson’s new book Kickass Single Mom I wanted to punch the air and yell “YES!”….
Quick question – how do you feel about growing your blog, your email list, or your social media following? What about your blogging process? If you’re anything like me, the words ‘overwhelmed’, ‘overworked’, and ‘totally baffled’ might come to mind. Earlier this year I was feeling completely swamped by everything on my to-do list. My goal…
We need to talk about Facebook. You can’t deny that genius as it is Facebook is THE best way ever invented to waste time. Hours and hours and hours of it. Days and days. In 2016 Facebook’s own stats revealed that on average we spend nearly an hour a day on Facebook. That’s a whole…
Do you wake up to hundreds of new emails in your inbox every day? Are most of them from companies you once bought something from, or newsletters you forgot you signed up for? You’re probably suffering from inbox overload. I don’t know about you, but an out of control email inbox makes me feel out…
It’s that time already – here’s my blog income report for June 2017. As you’ll know if you read last month’s report, as I now have a part-time job, these reports are now the additional self-employed income I earn from this blog and my freelance clients. I know many of you are probably starting out…
Are you dating? As a single mother, it’s a question you get asked a lot. By family, by friends, by random strangers even. My answer? My dating days are over. I’m done. Not just because as a single mum there’s very little time or opportunity to be ‘out there’. But because frankly, I can’t be…