If you’ve spent most of August worrying about business cash flow, please don’t make September the month you try to fix it by doing MORE. Because that panic is about to leak into your energy, power and money. And it will cost you. You might be telling yourself: “I just need the kids back at school.” “I need to get back into a routine.” “I’ve got loads to catch up on.” Maybe. But September isn’t going to fix the belief that more work = more money. And if that belief is still running the show,...

It was suggested that I lose 11lbs today by a male nurse while getting my free NHS 40+ health check. My BMI is 26.2 and he said: “Just lose around 5kg (about 11lbs) and you’ll come within the healthy weight range.” Now welcome to the part where I impart some very useful facts for you… What we now know as BMI was developed by Adolphe Quetelet in the 1830s as part of his work studying the characteristics of the “average man”. It was designed to study populations. Not individual health. It was...

When I started this business, officially my fifth business, I still didn't know what coaching was.​ I had a quotes that I lent on when I was struggling, or I would say to myself a line from a song in Cinderella "no matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, a dream that you wish will come true". I may have shared with my friends or family how I was feeling, but they didn't really get it. It was incredibly lonely to be in that place.​​Lonely because I was choosing to be...