The morning commute to work

It’s 8:15am. You’re tired. You’re on a bus PACKED full of people. It smells like a mixture of spilled beer, fags and BO. In fact these odours have combined into one new, vile offensive smell that is making you feel dizzy and nauseous. The school kids are being irritatingly loud on this grey cloudy morning, […]

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Sleep deprivation

Sleep is awesome. And sleep deprivation is not so awesome. I think we can all agree one of the best feelings is crawling into your bed after a long hard day at work and drifting into a deep relaxing sleep. But what if that isn’t a possibility? There can be many factors contributing to someone […]

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Having A More Successful Interview

You’ve got your new suit on… maybe a slick new haircut. You’ve got all those rehearsed answers to the questions you’ll (most probably) get asked fresh in your mind. Your mother’s advice to “Just be yourself, honey, you’ll dazzle them!” is giving you just the confidence boost you need. And whilst I would say do […]

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I’ve gone back to doing something I used to do when I first started my business and so far its really working

When I started my first business in May 2001 – I had no money (2 months bills money in the bank), no office, no advertising budget, no contacts to speak of and I had no clients. I also had a husband who was on part time hours and an 18 month old little girl. Oh […]

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Not only can SME’s not get bank funding, they are too afraid to ask!

Well – it’s not a good situation is it. SME’s who need funding cannot get it – that’s of course unless they actually don;t need it – ie they are a 100% safe bet. Or unless they are prepared to put their house and everything else they own on the line – for what might […]

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