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5–600 word inspiring articles on specific topics

How Paying Yourself First Enhances Your Business


also posted in Jane's Blog

Once upon a time many years ago, there was a young woman who lived and worked in north London. A talented individual in many areas, she worked in a company she loved, amongst very many friends, but the job she was doing was challenging to say the least.

She had recently transferred from company secretarial work into the finance department where she was responsible for the income and expenditure of the business, and which was well up into the hundreds of thousands.

Being the diligent soul she was, she began her new job researching files, following up calls and contacts, and generally opening doors that hadn’t been opened for very long. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view) the result of this was that the doors (more...)

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Why You Don’t Have More Clients and What To Do About It From the Inside Out


also posted in Jane's Blog

I’m doing everything I should be doing, putting fliers out, advertising my services, talking to people about what I do, got a website, and still I only see just enough clients — what am I doing wrong?”

This is a cry I hear a lot these days. Is it because of the credit crunch, and many people tightening their belts? Is it because of lack of the right marketing message? Is it because your pricing is wrong?

Well, it could be all of these, amongst other things, although even though there’s a credit crunch, it doesn’t necessarily mean that people won’t buy your services.

But even more fundamental than all these is your attitude to getting more clients. It’s true that even if your attitude is poor, and you view your (more...)

7 Essential Tips for Letting Go of Resistance


also posted in Jane's Blog

Making a coffee, looking for something to eat when I’m not hungry, answering emails, putting the washing on, feeling irritable, dithering, being compelled to collect my lenses from the opticians down the road – what do all these things have in common?

They’re all forms of resistance, and resisting is what I have just been doing. Yes, resisting writing this article! But I became inspired to sit down and write when I realised I was practicing the very thing I wanted to write about! And that acknowledgment of what was really going on, allowed the resistance to transform into action.

This is one of the tricks about resisting. So long as you are stuck in the pattern of thought, feeling or action that is demonstrating itself as (more...)

Why the Law of Attraction Just Isn’t Enough for those Passionate About What They Do


also posted in Jane's Blog, Uncategorised

I’d really like to debunk a few myths about the so-called Law of attraction. I don’t know who came up with the idea of calling it this in the first place, but it has certainly been brought into a more mainstream audience by the film The Secret, first promoted way back in 2006.

Those of you who have seen The Secret will probably either love it or hate it, at least most of my friends fell into those categories. Mainly because the focus seemed to be about ‘getting stuff’, and that emphasis was just too much for them. It’s true that that film appeared to focus on the element in the LOA about ‘getting stuff’. But the essence of this philosophy is (more...)

Does Your Business Have a Soul?


also posted in Jane's Blog

When I first heard the term soul in conjunction with the word business, my heart leapt. I recognised that this was the connection of the two passions in my life, my personal spiritual beliefs and my interest in business. But it wasn’t always like this.

I used to believe that doing things properly would get you where you wanted to go; and in business this meant treating people well, having great systems, knowing where you wanted to take your business, paying people on time etc. But even when I did all these things, there was often still a sense of struggle.

What I did most certainly didn’t always work, and it was certainly hard work, and lots of hours. Worst of all was not (more...)

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