This weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at a conference to rural professionals, sharing my talk on 'The Secrets of Super Productive People'. It's been a little while since I was speaking to an actual room full of people rather than over...
When I’m helping my clients to improve their productivity, one of the concepts I share is about uphill and downhill work. Uphill work is the stuff that feels a bit harder and requires more brainpower – often the more strategic working ON your business stuff. Whereas downhill...
If you're in England right now, this week is a very special week as we continue to emerge from what feels like a very long lockdown. Non-essential shops, outdoor dining & drinking, gyms, and hairdressers & beauty salons could finally re-open as of yesterday. This is wonderful...
Lots of business owners face a pretty much constant battle between ideas and implementation – they have loads of ideas of what they want to do, to grow and improve their business, but they struggle to get these ideas off the ground and implement them. And...
I think we're all appreciating seeing the first signs of Spring a little more this year, as the feeling of new beginnings brings hope to not only the dawning of Spring, but also the way out of lockdown in the UK. And now is as good...
If you're like most business owners, finding time to work ON your business is pretty difficult. A super simple tip I share with my clients is the 5-minute list. Jot down a list of really quick tasks you can do, to work on your business - things...
Recently, I set myself a 6 week Super Productivity challenge. This meant 6 weeks of putting in less hours in my business, whilst still growing it and, importantly, keep my marketing pipeline flowing. Why? Because I wanted to spend more time with my family over the 6...
I want to tell you a short story about something I saw happen at a recent networking event I was at. A business owner told us about a great new product she was offering. There was lots of interest in the room. Seriously, there were 2 people...
Last week I had a plumbing problem. The pump we have fitted to work our shower packed up. It started to make an even louder noise than usual, and the burning smell coming from it made me realise we'd need professional help to sort it out. So, I...
"Backlog - an accumulation over time of work waiting to be done." Sound familiar at all? Perhaps your inbox is multiplying at a rate of knots and each day you dread logging in and seeing the latest unwelcome additions. Or maybe your filing tray is overflowing as you...