Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
January is the perfect time of year to be thinking about goals and aspirations. And a really good way to keep those goals at the forefront of your mind is to present them visually. So how about sitting down with the children, with some paper, old magazines and some glue, and while they busy themselves [...]
So, as we find ourselves in the 3rd week of January, how is everybody doing with their resolutions? January can be bad time to make personal resolutions – its cold, its dark, the post-Christmas blues hit and so keeping your resolve can be harder than ever – especially as most resolutions are negative and mean [...]
Despite the bleak economic climate, small businesses in the UK are nevertheless optimistic for 2012 according to a recent survey by Simply Business. During October, Simply Business commissioned some market research inviting small businesses to help build an accurate picture of the UK economy from their perspective. The research covered a variety of topics including [...]
In this guest post, business coach and university lecturer Patricia Wilson from Frozen Ps explains how important it is to implement systems in order to grow your business. Many experts will tell you that there are 3 ways to grow a business: increase the numbers of customers you have increase the number of times they [...]
We were really lucky to have the lovely Lisa Warner from FINK cards come and speak at the June MTB Bedford meeting and one of the things that she shared with us has inspired this blog post. She talked very openly about her business journey – about the distractions of the first year, the media [...]
Have you stopped to reflect upon the goals you set yourself at the start of the year? Are you actually making progress to achieve one or more of your goals, or have things got out of control and you’re way off track? Here are my 5 reasons why it is good practice to review your [...]
A mission statement might sound like something very grand that only massive corporations have, but even the smallest company can benefit from having a mission statement, company vision or simply a company ethos. Quite simply a mission statement is a formal, short, written statement of the purpose of a company or organization. A company [...]
Setting effective goals is an important aspect of any business. Why? When you set a goal you have a destination in mind. A goal is the difference between where you are now and where you want to be. Then how you reach your goal involves putting a series of steps in place. Each step is [...]
Around this time of year I always start thinking about New Years Resolutions. In fact part of me likes the anticipation of a fresh start that the new year brings more than Christmas itself. All too often these resolutions include things like losing weight, eating more healthily and getting more sleep. But this year lots of [...]
Today I read a great quote which really struck a chord with me. It said ”Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still”. It struck a chord because, at the moment, as business owners we find ourselves at somewhat of a crossroads – keep on doing what we’re doing (i.e.stand still) [...]
