Twenty years ago, I barely did any exercise. It wasn't something that interested me at all. These days, I can’t imagine my life without regular exercise, and I genuinely don’t think I’d be able to deliver the quality of service I do if I didn’
As I mentioned in last week's email, I'm off up to Newcastle this week for Atomicon (please do let me know if you're going so we can catch up). As I'll be travelling up Monday morning, I'm pre-writing this email.
It never ceases to amaze me how many freelancers don't take time off for holidays. In 2016, I ditched employment to go all in on my business. And do you know what I did in my first week as a full-time self-employed freelancer? I went on holiday. In
I'm heading up to Newcastle next week for Atomicon. If you've got tickets and fancy meeting up, hit reply and let me know. I attended Atomicon last year after seeing endless posts about it the year before. It felt like every other freelancer I was connected
I talk a lot about creating a business that makes you happy, but what does happiness look like to you? For me, happiness is having enough money and time to do the things I enjoy. I don't want to have to say "no" to going on
Last week, I did talk about content marketing and one thing I said was that your content doesn't necessarily have to be about your product or service. You can write about anything relevant to your target audience. After my talk, I went for a run and I was
I have always loved writing, so writing for a living seemed like the dream job. And, for a while, it was. I genuinely loved what I did. I was getting paid to write stuff. But after a couple of years, the novelty wore off, and writing started to feel like
Last week, I had an extremely productive week, but I'm still struggling to attract new members for my group events. So I've decided to increase the value of the membership by running lunch and learns every month, rather than once a quarter. And I've
Too many freelancers neglect self care. They think they must be constantly available to clients and feel guilty if they aren't doing something productive. Don't. Don't feel guilty. You cannot give 100% to your clients if you're tired or ill or injured
Last week started so well. I worked the bank holiday and, because it was a quiet day, I got caught up on loads of stuff. Then it all went a bit haywire. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I somehow managed to delete all my course content. Well,
"People are more likely to do business with people they know, like, and trust." Are you familiar with this phrase? The idea is you build relationships with people so that when they are in the market for what you sell, they won't think twice about buying
It doesn't feel like a bank holiday today because I'm working and so is my husband. We took Friday off as we had a wedding down in Suffolk, so we decided to use today as a catch-up day since we've already had a long
