• Much to celebrate

    Celebration time! 🥳 Because today marks 6 months since I started daily emails. 184 emails… 91987 words… infinite self-doubt and procrastination… But… made it! Three people… yes, only three people… received my first email that wintery August day. (Hey, I’m… Read more…

  • To niche or not to niche

    Met with my first coaching victim client today. Was great to connect. And work together on gaining some clarity with his freelancing business. One thing we talked about was niching. Yep… one of those areas of supreme mental anguish for… Read more…

  • DonĘĽt fake it until you make it

    Flying in the face of the typical advice, we are today. Usually it’s: Put on a brave face and make like you’re the dog’s bollocks. (Sorry, couldn’t track down an emoji for that) So I was catching up on reading… Read more…

  • Rambling over hill and dale

    Is there method behind the madness of my daily emails? Sure is. There’s also a lot that’s just me writing whatever flows from my fingertips onto my Keychron A2 mechanical keyboard. One part of my method is just writing stuff… Read more…

  • Maybe we should just forget it?

    Why oh why did I ever say I’d write an ebook? And what the heck was I thinking telling my email list about it? All seemed like a good idea at the time. Now I’ve got no wiggle-room. It ain’t… Read more…

  • “Go with the flow” works for me

    I woke up before the roosters. Took my daughter to the pools. Drove back. Sat down at my computer. In the past I would have ended up faffing around… half-heartedly opening a document I should probably be working on… then… Read more…

  • This grouch is dreamin’ of Tim Tams

    It never amazes me the ridiculous “national days” that they come up with. I mean… Today — 16th Feb — is “National Do a Grouch a Favor Day”. One site describes it like this: “For some, it’s in their nature… Read more…

  • Dr Jung’s prescription for this “oldie”

    Just got back from tennis coaching. Not mine. But feeling exhausted from watching my daughter run all around the court whacking the balls. Was feeling a little old after that. But then remembered this neat quote I stumbled across the… Read more…

  • The big deal with little posts

    Yesterday I posted in a Facebook group, sharing a “win” of mine. I didn’t expect to do anything more with that post. Once it was out of my head… onto the keyboard… into the group… viewed by others. That was… Read more…

  • The power of staying in touch

    Just today I had a client contact me who I worked for back in November ’22. He’d just decided to attend a conference and now needed a brochure. And a web page to go with it. They needed it fast… Read more…