I’ve decided to publish monthly income reports. Yes, it’s been done a millions times, by people FAR more influential than little old me, but bear with me, here’s why… I want to be totally honest about the realities of self-employment as a single mother. Total transparency means getting down to brass tacks about what I’m…
How do you cope when you feel totally overwhelmed by everything life throws at you? When you work for yourself, and don’t have much help, the overwhelm quota can start to become well, overwhelming. So you have to learn how to deal with it. I made this video a few months ago when I woke up…
Who are your single mum role models? One of mine is Lorelai Gilmore. While fictional TV characters aren’t normally my go-to source of parenting advice, as a single mum surrounded by couples, I’ll take my single mum role models wherever I find them. Let’s face it, positive representations of single mums aren’t exactly plentiful in our culture. So I…
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Perfectionism has held me back so many times in my life. I thought it was simply a desire to do my very best, but really it was fear in a cunning disguise. It took me a long time to realise the truth. When I think about the amount of work I haven’t finished, the number of opportunities I…
If you read my last post then you know that without a knock-out strategy you are wasting your time on social media. What is a social media strategy? It’s a roadmap that sets out: As promised, today I’m going to walk you through the six steps you need to develop your own successful social media strategy…
Stop. Right this minute! I can see you, fingers hovering over your keyboard about to try and light up Facebook with a post about you new super-duper offer. But don’t. Not yet. Not until you’ve read this post. Because I want to stop you wasting five to 10 hours of your time every week. Yes,…
I’m a writing quote junkie. Great quotes about anything make my spine tingle with a deep sense of recognition. Writing quotes have a particular power. Perhaps it’s because so often they also apply to life in a broader sense. How we write, is how we live. Words are only way we have to connect with others, and with ourselves. Even if…
Is social media working for you? Or are you spending hours of your precious time tweeting, posting and pinning but seeing little or no return for your effort? Perhaps you hear other people raving about the power of social media and how it’s transformed their business, boosted their income and helped establish them expert in their industry? Are you left wondering…