Celebration is a lost art. Many of us avoid it, resist it, pushing forward with our To Do list, skirting over our successes. The result? Self-employment feels like an endless treadmill, rather than the journey of freedom and fulfillment we’d hoped for. As I celebrate the 5th birthday of You Inspire Me – yep, that’s five [...]
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You’d think that having passion as the motivating force behind starting a business would make the process easier. In many ways, it does. We don’t mind spending hours on it and our enthusiasm is genuine and contagious, making it easier to ‘sell’ whatever we’re offering. But joyful, ecstatic, all-engrossing passion is an ingredient which also [...] I’m giving up speed for Lent. It’s losing its appeal. More and more, I’m experiencing the benefits of slowing down and creating space for breath, for inspiration. I came back to my emails after a gloriously relaxing and nurturing week away with a commitment to process them fully. I am allowing myself time to engage [...] One morning, I woke up at 7am with an article in my head. It was a bundle of words and phrases, it had a tone and a voice. I got up and wrote it out in less than an hour. It was the easiest thing I’ve ever written. I popped it up on a blog, [...] This is Global Entrepreneurship Week and to mark its start, I volunteered at the first day of Chain Reaction, an event which saw 700 people gather to explore how entrepreneurship can be a source of social good. There was a variety of inspirational speakers including Tim Smit of the Eden Project, Sophi Tranchell of Divine [...] I’m delighted to be showcasing one of my favourite ever ventures: Morsbags. The story is – an inspirational young woman named Claire Morsman realised the devastating impact of plastic bags on marine animals. Rather than starting a campaign to stop people using plastic bags, she decided to create an alternative and came up with ‘social [...] |
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