I spent last night at the British Library, as part of the panel at the Passion Into Pounds event hosted by Jessica Huie MBE and Vicki Psarias, aka Honest Mum. My fellow panellists were Jo Morrell, founded of The Pool, and media expert and best-selling author of The Million Dollar Blog, Natasha Courtenay-Smith. And me. Imposter […]
Continue readingNext week I’m taking part in what looks like a fabulous event for International Women’s Day at the British Library, Passion into Pounds, an ‘evening of inspiration’ for women hosted by Vicki Psarias and Jessica Huie (see more here). It’s my favourite format, a panel discussion (I’m in superb company: the other members are Jo Morrell, […]
Continue readingToday’s blog post is over at Birds on the Blog: http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/thank-terrifying-things/ I’ve come to welcome that flutter of anxiety, the sensation of shrinking inside and vertigo that is how I experience fear. Now I try to breathe into it, to welcome it as an infallible sign that I’m on the brink of a marvellous new adventure. […]
Continue readingIt’s not often that I am really, tragically bad at something these days. Sadly, that’s not because I’m universally gifted. It’s because I’ve organised my life so that I don’t have to do the things I know I’m really, tragically bad at. I outsource my bookkeeping, for instance, and I gave up on trying to […]
Continue readingAre you still waiting for the secret of success, productivity, happiness? A significant – and significantly profitable – section of the publishing industry is given over to books promising to make us better versions of ourselves. I’ve now interviewed several of the authors in The Extraordinary Business Book Club. And what’s astonished me is how […]
Continue readingThere’s a particularly extraordinary interview on this week’s Extraordinary Business Book Club, as you’d expect for the first week of a new year. David Taylor, The Naked Leader, is one of the world’s top leadership coaches and management thinkers. What’s extraordinary about that? Well, it’s just that he doesn’t act or write like a high-flying […]
Continue readingHappy 2017! Today’s blog is a guest post over at Birds on the Blog: http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/re-resolution/ This is for anyone who’s given up making New Year resolutions because they’re sick of breaking them… Think about it: where would you be now if you’d decided as a baby that because you’d fallen over the last 20 times […]
Continue readingFor one reason or another (a trampoline-park-related incident may have been involved), I didn’t actually run any of the races I’d signed up to this year. BUT at some point last month I realised that the Gutbuster, a fabulous muddy 10-mile/10-km race just up the road from us, was taking place on 31 December for […]
Continue reading2016 will surely go down as one of the most dismal years of all time for untimely celebrity deaths. As someone on my Facebook feed pointed out this morning: ‘I’m scared to switch on the internet. Every time I do someone dies.’ There have been two deaths over this Christmas period that struck me particularly […]
Continue reading…and what are you doing? Here are my plans for these glorious unstructured days between Christmas and New Year: 1. run and blog every day (the normal rules of life may not apply, but the streak continues) 2. do a jigsaw. I’m not even quite sure why, but every year at around this time the […]
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