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12/10/2026

Your business should support your life, not take it over!

If you're:
constantly "on,"
constantly deciding,
constantly carrying the workload

That's not just tiredness. That's a business that's stopped supporting your life.

As a business owner you are allowed to take a step back. By stepping back you are not giving up you are allowing yourself time and distance to see clearly enough so you can work out what to do to move forward.

I can help you do this, I can guide you through a process of reflection. Business owners are often too close to be able to see the problem clearly, I can help give you perspective and space to focus on what is needed next.

05/10/2026

Have you ever held a whole business strategy in your head, then completely forgotten to reply to one email?

October is ADHD Awareness Month. Let's talk about what ADHD can actually feel like when you're running a business.

📌 It's having seventeen ideas before breakfast and no way of knowing which one matters most.

📌 It's a task that should take you no more than an hour but ends up taking all day. Or worse, it's doesn't happening at all.

📌 It's working in bursts of brilliant focus, then hitting a wall you can't explain and can't do anything.

📌 It's knowing exactly what needs doing, and still not being able to get started.

📌 It's years of wondering why things that seem easy for everyone else feel so hard for you.

And sadly it's the quiet voice in your head that says you should be doing better by now.

My message to you in this awareness this month is stop beating yourself up. What you are struggling with isn't a discipline problem. It definitely isn't laziness. It's just that your brain is wired differently.

You don't need another planner, another app, or another system built for someone else's brain. You need a way of working that is bespoke for you, that fits how you actually think.

That's the work I do with ADHD business owners and professionals. We start with you, how your ADHD shows up in your work, and we build from there. No judgement. No one size fits all. Together we build a system that will work for you.

What is the one thing you would most like to feel easier, run smoothly, be less stressful. Book a free ADHD discovery call with me and let's start to think about how I can make things easier for you.

28/09/2026

Having just had a week away, it was a good reminder of something I say to clients all the time: if your business can't survive you stepping back for a few days, that's not a resilient business. That's a fragile one wearing a busy disguise.

Sometimes we get caught in the busy, busy busy cycle, where we feel we have to be busy all the time. Fill the diary with meetings, take on more work, but actually having a busy day does't mean it's an effective day.

Look back at your diary for last week: how many meetings did you attend? How many moved your business forward? How many hours did you work? Then look at how much work you completed. How effective were you last week?

When you started your business, was your goal to build something you can never leave. Many business owners set up their own companies because they want the freedom and flexibility they think it will give them.

The goal was to build something that supports the life you actually want — including the weeks you switch off completely. Remember being busy isn't the same as being effective.

25/09/2026

This is me doing my first Parkrun for 5 months after a long recovery from pneumonia.

I was determined and motivated to get back to running. At my hospital appointment where I was told I had pneumonia the consultant explained that if I hadn't been fit and healthy I would have been admitted to hospital. That conversation has stayed with me and gave me the determination to regain that level of fitness.

Having to rest for 3 months had taken its told on my ability to walk let alone run. I began a simple routine of walking every day, I was able to build up the distance and pace, then I started running, slowly at first over short distances. It was incredibly satisfying to be able to complete Parkrun again. I admit I did walk at some points but I completed it.

I have since completed 3 Parkruns, I'm not back at the pace I was and I still have to walk at times, as my lungs are still healing, but I'm improving.

Often business owners try to run before they can walk. They try to do everything at once, bite off more than they can chew and lots of other cliches. But if you start small and build the habit you get the result, but also feel stronger and more confident.

Getting a clear perspective on what you want to achieve is vital to growing your business.

if you would like some help to get clear on where you are going, book a discovery call and let's plan your next steps.

23/09/2026

If you've got a drawer full of abandoned productivity systems, that's not a you problem.

Most systems are built for a steady focus, predictable energy, everything in order. If your brain runs in bursts of intense focus followed by walls you can't explain, a rigid system is never going to stick.

That's not failure. That's a mismatch.

The right structure doesn't fight your brain. It works with it.

21/09/2026

A client of mine had taken redundancy, set herself up as a consultant, and couldn't motivate herself to do any of the work. The skills were there. The business was registered. Nothing was happening.

We talked. And the thing that came up, over and over, was one word: "semi-retired."

That's what she'd been calling herself. And her mindset had quietly followed the label, sitting in cafés, work as an intrusion, "I deserve to relax."

We changed the word. She started introducing herself as a consultant. Not semi-retired. A consultant.

The shift in how she showed up after that was immediate.

You'd be amazed what one word can be doing to you without your permission.

19/09/2026

Tomorrow I'm switching off for a week. Properly off, no emails, no ""just checking in," no half-presence while I'm meant to be resting.

I spend a lot of time telling business owners that rest isn't a reward you earn after everything's done. It's part of how the business keeps working.

So this week, I'm practicing what I preach.

I'll come back refreshed and energised (and hopefully not with pneumonia like last time I went on holiday).

18/09/2026

You can be flat out from 7am to 7pm and still feel like nothing moved.

That's usually not a time problem. It's an energy problem. Somewhere in your day, you're doing your best thinking at the wrong hour, and your admin at the hour you should be doing your best thinking.

Small thing. Big difference once you see it.

At my recent workshop we looked at an energy audit, mapping tasks to your energy levels. Is this something that would benefit you?

Book a discovery call and let's have a chat.

16/09/2026

I work with a lot of business owners who can hold an entire strategic vision in their head, and then lose track of a Wednesday.

That's not a discipline problem. It's not laziness. It's how an ADHD brain is built, brilliant at big-picture thinking, harder to wire for the small, repetitive stuff that keeps a business ticking over.

The fix isn't trying harder at being someone you're not. It's building a way of working that actually matches how your brain works, not fighting it every single day.

If that sounds familiar, you're not alone in it.

I offer ADHD Coaching as individual sessions or as part of ongoing support to help you see things more clearly, focus on what is important right now and organise your ideas, actions and tasks.

14/09/2026

"I hear this a lot: ""I know something needs to change, I just can't work out what.""

That's not confusion. That's proximity.

When you're standing right up against a problem, everything looks the same size, the big thing and the small thing, the thing that matters and the thing that's just loud. Step back a few feet and suddenly you can see which is which.

That's most of what I do, if I'm honest. Not adding more thinking. Just creating enough distance for you to see what's already there.

You don't need more ideas. You need clearer thinking."

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