The Blog
The emotions, actions and thought processes of my creative work.
This is where I share what I’m doing and why, how I’m thrashing out problems and what I’m trying to achieve.
How To Pursue A Big Idea
How many of us are not pursuing our big ideas and dreams out of…well, out of a number of reasons. Fear of failing, worry over what people will think, lack of support, low confidence, all the ‘who am I to do this?’ feelings. But you know what? Very often these come down to just not knowing where to start. If you don’t know where to start with something, and the subsequent steps you’ll need to take, it becomes overwhelming easier for all those other fears to creep in.
5 Tips And Habits For An Autumn Of Action
know it’s not officially autumn for another 20 or so days, but for me it really ceases to be summer on September 1st. As I look out of my window I can see the first hints of auburn in the leaves, and yesterday I wore woolly socks. Certainly here in the UK for the first eighteen years of your life summer freedom ends as the calendar hits September, and that’s some pretty hard conditioning to shake off. Not in a bad way; just that come September I’m ready for routine, for work.
Overcoming Money Myths
I tapped the figures of my paid invoice into the spreadsheet where I track my income, and, before pressing Enter, shifted my gaze down to the cell marked ‘Annual total’ where the formula would automatically update. I wanted to see it tick over with my own eyes, and in nano-seconds, it did.
Creative Crossroads: Choosing A New Direction For Your Business
What kind of a season is summer? With it's endless, cloudless days, sticky drips of ice cream and overhead buzz and flutter of transient birds and insects? It's a season, to me, of both rest and projects. After a spring of 'hustle' and growth there is now space and opportunity to enjoy the fruits of that labour, while this same space reinvigorates inspiration and creativity and brings new ideas to the fore.
6 Month Goal Check In - Let's Do It Together
This week is the summer solstice, the halfway point of the year. Rather than get in a flap about ‘WHERE THE HELL HAS THIS YEAR GONE?!’, I thought it would perhaps be more productive to do a six month check in on the goals I set for my business back in January.
How To Be The CEO In Your Creative Business
Whatever the stage you’re at in your business, we all forget to take a step back and be the CEO sometimes. It might be that you’re so bogged down in the day to day of emails, calls and projects that it’s been months since you stopped to take stock of where you’re going.
How To Stay Motivated In Your Creative Business
Whether you’re side-hustling or have a brand new business, it's hard to stay motivated and energised in your creative business. It’s hard for established businesses too (hell, it’s taken me an hour to write the first line of this post!), but when you’re starting out there’s something more dangerous about losing motivation.
How To Justify Time Spent On Personal Development For Your Business
I heard someone say recently that ‘time is not a renewable resource’, and how true is that? We are all so conscious of our time that we, consciously or unconsciously, agonise about how we can spend it most effectively. I personally find it difficult to justify having a shower some days, let alone taking time out of day to day work just to work on learning and developing myself.
What To Do When You’re Overwhelmed By Business Advice
I had a message this week from someone who has been enjoying my content and my new found enthusiasm for pinning advice articles on Pinterest, but who was now feeling more overwhelmed and demotivated than they had been before. The information overload was actually putting their progress in reverse and making it feel more difficult than ever to get their business going. Sound familiar?
How To Hold Yourself Accountable When You Work Alone
Being your own boss and working on your own comes with lots of perks – tea made the way you like it, no weekend chit-chat, the option of wearing pyjamas. We can make work spaces better than any open plan office, collaborate with creative friends we choose to be our colleagues, and, best of all, turn our hard work into results for ourselves.