Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, I am posting this Sateside, having arrived in Colorado yesterday evening. The night before I left, I discovered that my website had disappeared and my email wasn’t working. Read More
Finally a chance to kick back and relax! If, like me, you are celebrating August with a much-needed respite from work, here’s a few recent favourites of mine to help you while away the hours at the beach, in the garden, the mountains, the downs… anywhere really. 
One day, one of the cats got to one of the (then whole) gerbils and managed to remove a leg, an ear, half his tail and a bit of his eye. We took half a gerbil (initially costing £5, now presumably worth £2.50) to the vet (who charged considerably more) and ended up going home with a ton of medicines and instructions for wound cleaning, eye drops, antibiotics and goodness knows what, 3 times a day, until he died or got better. The Very Competent Children who had until this point taken full responsibility for gerbildom could not cope with ramming a cotton bud into the gap where his leg had once attached and handed nursing duties over to Mum, who had only recently been able to pick a gerbil up. And a rather magical thing happened.. 
The next marketing with heart workshop is on Saturday 12th September. If you have a small, ethical business, you can show it a little love in this workshop by re-focusing on your heartfelt motivations for setting it up and then learning how to share the love by communicating effectively with your marketplace. 
In my own business, and in coaching clients, I am frequently looking at how to resource strategic plans. For any project to run successfully, attention needs to be paid to human resources, financial resources and time resources. If any one of these is limited, the project will bear the strain. But there is a further consideration that often goes unheeded: I’m calling it ‘the fourth resource’. Latest
- lessons from half a gerbil
One day, one of the cats got to one of the (then whole) gerbils and managed to remove a leg, an ear, half his tail and a bit of his eye. We took half a gerbil (initially costing £5, now presumably worth £2.50) to the vet (who charged considerably more) and ended up going home [...]
- lessons from half a gerbil