In the last few weeks, my son has moved in with us to start afresh, and one of my stepsons has just announced that after four years of being together, he and his lovely girlfriend are getting married - in two weeks time! If you've ever had that feeling...

What a big subject communication is. I'm even having to divide it up for my blog because it's so big. The reason I'm writing about it at all is because of it's huge importance in every area of our life, and if you're running a business, it's essential ...

I was listening to a report about our perception of time a while ago, which talked about our attitude to it and how it can make us feel stressed when we feel that we haven't got enough. We are increasingly running our lives to a clock and can often feel e...

Networking is where you go along to an organised event. You meet lots of new people, exchange business cards and before you know it you've got some new business. OK, I know it doesn't usually happen that way. Let's rewind! Networking is where you go...

I've just finished reading "Who Moved My Blackberry" by Martin Lukes with Lucy Kellaway (www.amazon.co.uk - œ4.99) which is a hugely funny dig at the corporate world and electronic communication. It shows the fallout of sending delicate emails to the w...

Restarting my business this year meant looking again at my marketing, which if I'm honest, was pretty abysmal before. Having decided to really go for it I have been putting together email campaigns, blogging, and networking online, and have started go...

Years ago, my dream was to work my way up the corporate ladder, which in a male dominated environment I managed to do; my last promotion making me a senior manager. But, two things happened - I didn't enjoy it and then I got made redundant. So, it s...

Stress management is a funny old thing. When you're not stressed you can do all the right things - eat properly, sleep well, exercise and relax etc. but as soon as you're stressed, things go completely out of the window, just as you really need to be doin...

A friend of mine had her birthday the other day and was very reticent about broadcasting it. In fact, I didn't even know it was her birthday until we were drinking tea three hours after meeting up! Isn't it funny how in your twenties and even thirties ...

We often hear that the way to overcome the perception that we haven't got enough time to do our leisure activities is to schedule them into the diary so that's what I did. If I also worked "smarter" I would make the time to fit in such things as the gym a...