What Does Success Look Like?

Is it starting or finishing? Getting there in a hurry? Or stopping to take in the view on the way? Is success the elimination of failure or growing with every experience? Big deals? Or a series of tiny impacts? Is success really a destination or more of a journey? One big blinding flash of brilliance?…

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Why Learning To Say No Matters

When you started out you were so glad to get email enquiries, calls and visitors. Getting people through the door, even a virtual one was the best feeling! Someone was interested in what you were doing. Your idea wasn’t going to flop, your services were needed and more importantly wanted. You weren’t going to fail…

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The Quest For Perfection Makes You Invisible

One of my favourite times when my three boys were little was baking days. You can picture the scene, sticky, half licked spoons, flour and chocolate chips everywhere. Those baking days taught me a lot about the value of imperfection. When a three year old is making a gingerbread man he doesn’t ever want to…

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Take Off Your Little Black Dress

Maybe you look amazing in a little black dress with no help from anyone. Very few people can pull it off without at least a leg wax, high heels and an airbrush tan. Think about why you wear that dress in the first place. Is it to make you feel good about yourself? Possibly…..or is…

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The Idea Validation Roller Coaster

“There’s a difference between achieving your goals and realising your work matters.” Seth Godin Yesterday was a good day! You logged on first thing and found you’d sold a dozen eBooks overnight. You had five email queries about your latest online program and ten enrollments…..not bad. Your blog post got eighty retweets and your designer…

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6 Questions For Crafting Your Relevance

When was the last time something caught your attention? In our increasingly noisy world things that captivate us for more than a few seconds are few and far between. We have become experts at shutting things out, at not paying attention to anything that doesn’t hold relevance for us. In any market we need to…

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