All coached up!

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Well, seeing a business coach was DEFINITELY a good idea. In our first session, we managed to thrash out the answers to three of my four questions (the only one we didn’t tackle was where I see the business going in the short and long term). We also covered various practical things that I didn’t even realise I should be doing ( ‘unknown unknowns’ …

Hilary CadmanAll coached up!

Making a plan …

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I see that back at the beginning of December I was blogging about how I had set a date to make a business plan. Well, that didn’t happen, and I still have no plan, not even a 1-page one.  So, I’ve bitten the bullet and got myself a business coach. We have our first appointment tomorrow, and I’m hoping that she …

Hilary CadmanMaking a plan …

Micro planning

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Last week I got a good idea for organising my time from a networking meeting (actually coffee and chat) for people running small businesses. The suggestion was to have a day plan, and stick to it – that probably sounds fairly obvious as a time management tool, but I have to admit I hadn’t thought to do it! The day plan that we …

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Disappearing time

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I was going to create a category called ‘Procrastination’, but decided that was just too negative, so went for ‘Staying focused’ instead. I’ve noticed that if I don’t have a looming deadline, it’s remarkably easy for the day to simply disappear without me achieving anything in particular. Sometimes it’s because a supposedly small task turns out not to be small after …

Hilary CadmanDisappearing time