Work smarter
Boy oh boy have we been having some challenging times around the world this 2020. Forest Fires, protests, landslides, explosions oh and a little thing called a pandemic.
It can be hard to keep smiling in the face of such adversity. To keep focusing on the good stuff, when the news is full of panic and there are people dying across the world from Corona.
So how can we keep our peckers up and keep putting one foot in front of the other?
Sometimes we put the breaks on what we could achieve. We poo, poo our ideas. We feel like they belong to someone else. We feel bad about charging for our services. We feel ungrateful for wanting more. The idea of being rich feels dirty.
What would you do if you could do anything? What would you do if no-one was watching? What would you do if anything was possible?
I’ve just jumped off a Live with Small Business Saturday with the amazing Michelle Ovens and we were mostly there to talk about top tips to working at home with children. However, we ended up talking about people feeling like they couldn’t offer their services at the moment, or that they couldn’t charge.
I rarely get to inbox zero. I feel like it’s worth putting that out there straight away. Every day my email inbox fills up with emails.
This morning I had 9 identical emails from different email accounts at around 2 am offering me guest blog posting – that’s an easy delete.
But not all emails come in that easy to disregard shape and size. A lot of them require my attention or my thoughts.
Life couldn’t be more different for me than it was in 2009. This time 10 years ago I had just finished chemotherapy and had no hair (anywhere!). Robin was 1 we lived in a small 2 up 2 down, with my friend Kim who lived on a sofa bed in the living room. We were living on income support and various pots of money from cancer charities and I watered down milk to save money (which my friend Kim really hated!)
Last week I wanted to talk about cancer – this week I wanted to honour you by talking about the responses I got to my post.
I have been completely humbled by the personal stories people have shared with me about their own experiences of cancer, bereavement and illness. I am certainly not alone in my grief for myself, my body and for others.
As female entrepreneurs we have a lot on our plate! Not only are we running businesses and trying to bring home the bacon, but if you’re on your own you’ve got an entire household to run and even if you live with someone, research shows that women do 60% more housework.
That’s a lot of plates that you’re juggling, so no wonder you might feel a little overwhelmed with all the to dos at times!
As seen in:
UK’s Digital Woman of the Year 2020
MarketEd Live Top 30 Marketers that Inspire 2020, 2021 & 2022 | Digital Women’s Top 40 Women to Watch 2020
Top 100 Female Entrepreneur 2019 | Top 100 Influencer for Gender, Equality & Diversity 2019 & 2020
Winner of Ingenuity19 for My Business My Way Toolkit | HSBC’s Top 5 podcast for Women in Business in UK 2019
