Small Business OWNER This Is Your Unique Advantage

As social distancing has started affecting every industry, have you been thinking deeply about your business? How do you respond to the new reality? Now is the time to pivot—not out of desperation or to stay afloat, but to discover growth strategies you might not have considered before. Some of the most innovative companies evolved from entirely different beginnings. I mentioned this in a previous post, I am sure you have seen companies out there who have regrouped from producing their normal product to producing medical equipment to support our NHS a PIVOT. How can you learn from this? What could you do to reinvent your business in some way to formulate a new product, or serve a new market? How can you look at your audience and current offering to uncover new strategies?

As an entrepreneur or small business owner, you are hardwired to look for new opportunities AND you have a unique advantage, you are AGILE. You can move...

ADAPT - Welcome to your Small Business Toolkit  

Our current situation with COVID -19 is one which we could not have been prepared for and we are learning to adapt to a whole new landscape. Rather than wondering how you are going to survive, let's look at this as an opportunity for change.

I coach Independent Business Owners, for any entrepreneur, running your own business can be daunting even at the best of times. I want to show you how to create new ways to sustain your business through these challenging times, so that you are prepared and ready to operate when our ‘new’ normal resumes.

As a business owner I have experienced tough times in my own business over the years, the key right now is resilience and how to use this time to pivot and grow. I have to tell you, many of my best business concepts have been birthed under the most challenging of markets and economies. 

The commodity we do have right now is time, I feel there is much work to be done...

Do you ever skim through your Instagram and see all those inspirational quotes telling you to breathe, be in the moment, you’ve got this and think yeah that’s brilliant, amazing but I am just not feeling it right now!  Instead, you might be feeling unfocused, distracted, directionless, stressed and self-critical.

STOP It’s okay! you just lost your flow. You know that feeling when times seems to slow down, your mind shifts into a new space, you feel alive, connected in tune and moving with a precision and poise you don’t fully understand, but at the same time, it feels great – when you are in the zone, you’re in FLOW. Flow is like a state of meditation or mindfulness that happens when you are fully and completely absorbed in what you are doing.

Let’s find a little FLOW in our day to day. Flow follows focus and taking risks drives your focus into the now.  I am not talking ‘white water rafting type adventure risk’ we are...

Hi guys I just wanted to check in and say hello, I flew to Boston just over a week ago and bizarrely I am sat in the airport lounge ready to fly out tonight storm permitting. I have been checking in when I can mostly in the middle of the night as the time difference between here and London means I wake around 5am most mornings. 

I came to Boston to get quiet, I have just gone through an incredible and brutal four months where my life has been turned upside down. Following the shock and trauma I felt I needed to come here to get still, to breathe, take stock, tp rejuvenate in my place of calm surrounded by wonderful friends I have known for half my lifetime. I wanted to share my story and something that helped transform both me and my perspective that may help.

I was listening to a Deepak meditation, he talked about the sequoia tree analogy and it resonated so deeply with me and the last broadcast from Mel and how gracefully she is taking on board the talk show changes adapting...