Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
Today’s post is a welcome return from our Inspiration Guru Susan Odev, where she talks about letting go and bouncing back after a difficult time. Boy how I have missed my monthly articles for Mums the Boss! I was so honoured and pumped to sit down once a month and craft a few hundred words [...]
On our blog we have featured a large selection of inspirational mumpreneurs and, without exception, all of them were inspired to start their own business so they could work flexibly around their children. So we’ve clearly acsertained why so many of us are self employed, but why are we working at all? What drives women with young children [...]
So, we’ve won our first award. It feels fabulous, it really does, but does it make us a success? External recognition from your peers and other business owners is a huge honour, but you can’t rely on it to keep your spirits up. You need to find your own measure of success, for those times when [...]
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 [...]
How can staying motivated help you and your business? Motivation inspires you to keep going, to maintain a level of commitment, and to stay focussed on what you want to achieve. Without motivation the process stops. No progress is made and your business plans and dreams can lose momentum. Here are 10 motivational tips to [...]
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.3 This is my favourite quotation and one which, whenever I am in doubt about something, I call to mind. Whether the issue concerns your [...]
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 [...]
When was the last time you gave yourself a pat on the back for a job well done? Most of us get so bogged down with what’s still to do on our To Do list that we don’t give ourselves credit for everything we have achieved. Many of us rely on feedback from a customers or [...]
