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 [...]
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 [...]
I have read lots of posts already this month about setting goals for the New Year. Any business owner worth their salt will tell you how important goals are. There are even acronyms (SMART) telling you your goals should all be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. I myself have set out goals for 2011 [...]
Earlier this week we read about Helen’s word for 2011 – Balance. Today Sam talks about her word of the year. Reading Helen’s article about her need for balance rung so many bells with me it was uncanny. And while I fully intend to make sure my home and work life are much more evenly balanced [...]
Like everyone, we’ve been making New Year’s resolutions. To kick-start the blog this year, here are Helen’s hopes and goals for 2011. Most people will have made some New Year Resolutions – some may have already started, some may have been broken already and some may be waiting until the start of next week to [...]
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 [...]
At our July Bedford meeting we were delighted to have as our guest speaker award-winning mumpreneur Wendy Shand, founder of Tots To Travel. As a mum of three Wendy is passionate about encouraging women in business – and particularly mums – as she believes they make excellent business leaders and perhaps more importantly, fabulous role models [...]
There are points of everybody’s life which seem to be more significant or marked than others. There are also times of extremes – whether that is absolute quiet and calm or frantic activity and chaos. A business is no different. There are times when everything is going well and according to plan, quieter times and busier times……but [...]
Todays post comes from our Inspiration Guru Susan Odev. Susan is a writer, trainer, performer & co-author of Mum Ultrapreneur, and she’s on a mission is to inspire all Mums (& Dads)to be the very best they can in business. In this post Susan talks about tapping into your inner ‘muse’ for creative inspiration. Sitting down to write [...]
I find New Year a strange mix of emotions - a time of reflection on the year just ending and the promise and potential of the year to come. 7 years ago I started a little personal tradition of writing myself a letter on New Year’s Eve. I have usually started to think about this in [...]
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 [...]
