Same Thing. Different Recipe.

Much as I would love them to request raw veg and seeds, sometimes the small people want cake. And, specifically, last weekend they wanted brownies. So I of course had to oblige (nothing to do with me wanting to eat any, of course **coughs**). I don’t have a go-to brownie recipe in my head so I dug out my cookbooks–which are a rather eclectic selection I have to admit–and compared recipes.

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Location location location

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Location is important to me. Where I ‘work’ has a big impact for me on how I ‘do’ my Thing. And I also want to make a mark, an impact for my clients in their calendar – to mark a day of change, and new moves. A great location adds to this hugely for me.

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Listening

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When you’re busy doing your Thing it’s important to listen… listen to you, listen to your clients, listen to the market, listen to your body.

When you are listening you’ll do your Thing in the best way you can.

You know you are the best person to learn from…

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Run past the finish line

While I have completed a few 10ks in my time, I would never put myself in the category of being an athlete. What I do know about races though is that you don’t slow down when you see the finish line—you keep on running, and if you have it in you (there’s always that little bit in reserve, right?) then actually you speed up when you see it.

And you need to do this with your business goals and your marketing too.

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Even the best hairdresser can’t cut the back of their own head

Sometimes we think that because we can do a good job on others we can do it for ourselves. But that’s when we forget 2 things:

1. It’s on the end of our nose which, of course, we look straight past so don’t actually SEE it
2. Cobbler’s children: we’re SO busy doing our Thing for other people that we completely forget or neglect to do it for ourselves…

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When simple is simply perfect

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I’m not even going to pretend for one moment that I have this totally sussed. I am definitely a simple work in progress. BUT what I do know is that every time I make something simpler in my business it works better.

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