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It’s that time of year when those great New Year’s resolutions you made are often starting to wobble.

Whether it’s drinking less, exercising more, finding better life balance or taking braver decisions at work, our good intentions tend to weaken after a few weeks.

Historically it has been said that it takes 21 days to break a habit or to form a new one. More recent research by the University College London found that it actually takes an average of 66 days for a new habit to stick. What’s more, in their research, whist some people stuck to their new habit after just 18 days, others took up to 254 days.

So, don’t despair if you haven’t yet cracked your new mindset or activity. It is likely to take at least two months and possibly more. Here are some useful tips to help you be successful, taken from the latest research in behavioural science and practical experience of many years working with people in organisations to change their habits.

Here we are on day 5, you are going to love today’s topic: Easy Content Creation and Content Scheduling First things first though. I want to quickly talk about copyright and royalty free images for use on social media. You cannot just cut and paste or copy other peoples images and then use them on your own social […]

So you have all those qualifications and experience. You have an idea or a big dream. Or even several. Yet, you are treading water and waiting. Waiting to dare. It’s just plain scary to take that leap and become your own CEO.

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
Jack Kornfield

Beat the February fail rate on those well intentioned New Years resolutions by thinking differently about how to achieve them.

How have you been getting on with the earlier exercises in this series? I hope you’re excited to be looking at Marketing today. We’re looking at the importance of shining bright, of standing out, and being visible! If you run your own business, there really is no escaping the fact that you’re responsible for telling […]

What tech do you really need to be spending money on when you first start a coaching, consulting or healing business? In the early stages of building a business it’s easy to get carried away by all the advertising you’ll see. Spending money on things you really don’t need at the expense of the things […]

How did you get on with yesterday’s step? If you haven’t read it yet, here is the link – DAY 01 Today we are going to look at your ideal customer/clients, in particular you’ll be doing an exercise that will help you work out who you would most love to work with. I’m going to […]

Sometimes we find ourselves in what we would (politely) describe as a Wrong Job.  It can come about for a variety of reasons. Maybe it was the only job you could get at a particular time, maybe it was described in one way but in reality, it is another.  Maybe you just outgrew it.  Whatever the reason, now you’ve […]

So, you want to escape the 9-5 grind and build a business of your own? You’re excited. You’re passionate about what you do. You KNOW you’ve got the know how to make your dream a reality. You KNOW you can do your job standing on your head. What you aren’t so sure about is how to […]