We all love a good spring clean... well, we love the feeling after!  But in our businesses we often put off cleaning up or even looking properly at the messy parts.  All that changes though when we set up for success.  We can't afford to have the flotsam and jetsom of a messy business floating about.  So let's get to it and spruce up our businesses for success.

Almost every business owner I speak to wants to be more productive.  And one of the  most productive things we can do in our business is work from a place of rest.  It sounds counter-intuitive I know but in today’s episode I want to convince you and inspire you to establish proper rhythms of rest and planning to set yourself up perfectly for audacious action taking.

Ready to set yourself up for the success you want?  Let’s go.

Many solo business owners I work with face the same problem: they don't know what they should be doing when they're not working with clients. This can often lead to feeling ineffective and inefficient or being busy with things that don't progress their businesses. What we need is to create a repeatable, reliable system that can grow with us and it just so happens that I have been working on that system and am sharing it with you in this first of a four part series on setting up for success.

Many of us go into business with a fantastic concept or solution. We are ideas people. We're relationship builders. What we are definitely not ready for, is become sales people. The word itself is enough to cause cold sweats but the reality is, if we don't sell our product, how can people buy it?  In today's episode I'm giving you 5 ways to make selling easier for yourself.

There are times when need to intentionally take a look and see what psychological and emotional baggage we are gathering and decide what we want to take with us moving forward.  In this week's episode I give you two images to help you think about this as we go into the second half of the year.

If you come out in hives at even the thought of having to 'sell' then this is the episode for you.  Leigh Ashton's passion and incredible insight into what we are truly doing when we 'sell' and how to have major mindset shifts around this vital business function are unmissable.   

Are you really clear on your strengths and can you own them, at least to yourself?  Are you really leaning in to them and using them everyday?  Or are you someone that holds back a little or finds it hard to be really clear on what your strengths even are?  In this week's episode Alison Hughes helps us understand what our strengths really are and how to use them to get the results we want in our businesses.

Ever heard the saying 'it's darkest just before dawn'?  Very often when we are about to breakthrough... that's when we need our belief the most.  But whatever you are going through in your business, be it highs or lows right now, belief is a vital part of the solo business owners toolkit.  So in this episode I'm sharing some tips and tricks to maximise yours.

There are two key questions we have to ask when we catch ourselves saying this phrase and in today's episode I take you through those essential questions and give you some hints and tips for getting out of the trap that gets us stuck and feeling that we aren't making progress.

Have you ever wondered if your personal development work was actually leading to any real growth for you or your business?  Over the years of using the SMART framework, I have revisited and refined the Teachable area because I see solo business owners falling into various traps in their personal development practice that actually do more harm than the thing they are trying to correct!   Have a listen to this episode to make sure you are getting the results from personal development that you really want.