Penny Power’s Social Networking Poem

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Make New Year’s Resolutions Worth Keeping with the One Goal Rule

January is traditionally the month for making resolutions. Like it or not, even Ebay and other organisations use this theme, to market their sites after Christmas.
The problem is, around 60-80% of all resolutions are broken in the first few weeks!
If your intention is to make more effective (and lasting) resolutions [...]

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‘Out With The Old, In With The New’ – How Taking Stock Can Deliver Ultimate Business Success

How has 2009 been for you?  What is your greatest achievement?  What are you really proud of this year?
If it’s been a tough year for you, in which you experienced more lows than highs, then you may be forgiven for not wanting to dwell too much on it, by moving on.  However, it is [...]

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Why Perfection Can Add to Seasonal Stress

The media can often make us believe that with the right amount of preparation the Christmas celebration can be perfect: a romantic festive period during which work parties are always fun, family gatherings go well, people are relaxed, with everyone showing their best side. And last but not least …. we look and feel fantastic [...]

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3 Top Tips for a Stress-Free Christmas Season

Doesn’t time just seem to be speeding up at this time of year?! For a lot of women this is the busiest time of year with so much to fit in.
Pressure, heavy demands on your time and the need to juggle different commitments can take its toll on physical or mental wellbeing. If you think [...]

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Perfection doesn’t work in business

A few concepts are starting to dawn on me since I’ve stopped my business.

One of them is perfection – it isn’t always possible and it certainly isn’t necessary. Believe it or not, if you constantly strive for perfection you will never get anywhere, and you will waste so much time trying to attain it.
And even [...]

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Model Caprice Shares her Top Tips for Business Success

Yesterday was Women’s Enterprise Day, which focuses on celebrating the successes of female businesswomen and encouraging others to turn their passions into profit.
Caprice Bourret who has been a successful model since 1996 has always seen herself as a businesswoman but claims she was “diving in at the deep end” when she decided to launch her [...]

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It’s just a job – or is it?

Last week was a relatively busy week and I was ready to enjoy a quiet weekend.
There had been several business meetings and events during the week, some productive and others not. However I did meet some interesting people in the process – like the lady at a local business event for women planning on starting [...]

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A pure shot of motivation

This week, when I attended a talk by the ‘top dogs’, who featured in the BBC program last spring, I was ready for an evening of entertainment. What I did not realize is just how fired up I would feel afterwards.
On stage were Ranulph Fiennes not only a famous polar explorer, but a man who [...]

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Nine Tips to Help Busy Women ‘Maxi-Task’ Rather Than Multi-Task

Following on from yesterday’s blog about ‘Multitasking not being the key to higher productivity’, here now are 9 Tips to help busy business women under pressure to keep up with the different demands on their time.
These 9 tips will help you ‘maxi-task’ rather than multi-task:
1. Accept that multitasking may not be good for you [...]

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Why Multitasking Is Not The Key to Higher Productivity

Are you a busy woman who is an expert at multitasking and who can juggle a million and one things? Women, who run a business from home, tend to view their ability to multitask as a requirement to help them try and fit in everything that needs to be done. But is it actually helpful, or a hindrance to productivity?

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How losing time – and my way- helped me regain clarity and focus

“OK, I give up… No I don’t…. Yes I do” ….. And I did!
About a year ago, I got hopelessly lost trying to attend a business event in Bracknell.
For some reason I always find it challenging to find my way round Bracknell, whatever navigation system I use. However my regular readers may know that I [...]

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How Social Networking can Kick-Start your Writing

Yesterday, we woke up to the news that Boyzone’s Stephen Gately had died suddenly, at the age of 33. 
When young people die, it is always shocking but particularly so when it is unexpected.  It is not so much the reminder that we are mortal or that life is short – we all know that don’t [...]

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What’s stopping you from finding the way forward?

I have always loved locks especially old ones. They seem to have a beauty of their own and carry memories of days/people gone by. Many are worn dripping with the effort of restraining water.
 But I particularly like what they are and what they do. At first sight they are an end; they block the way [...]

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A question of confidence?

As an experienced coach and in pursuit of my own personal development, I recently attended a local coaching group which addressed ‘confidence’ as a topic for discussion. Coach Kate Burton invited each of us to write down three areas in business where we felt that we lacked confidence.
As an exercise, we were then invited to [...]

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Time to get a part time job?

It is time for me to get a part time job seems to be a comment I am hearing more and more these days and I have to say, one that resonates with me.
I expect most of us hit a time in our own business when we feel revenues are not flowing in as planned [...]

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Planning and Goal Setting- It can’t get any Simpler than THIS!

When people ask me what my No. 1 Success Tip is, I would probably suggest “Don’t leave success to chance- make sure you follow your vision and have a plan”.
When you know where you want to get to in business and how you are going to achieve it, you are far more likely to [...]

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Using images to build business and remove obstacles

I don’t know about you, but I love images. My husband would tell you how I am click mad with a camera, especially since we have joined the digital age. And worst of all I find it almost impossible to thin the pictures down (even the poor, blurred ones), because each, in its own way, [...]

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Who is looking after you in business?

 There is so much to learn when setting up a new business – marketing, planning, products and finance.  All of which are very important, however it’s equally important to look after the people in the business.  Usually in the early business stage that means only one person – YOU!  Always invest time in your own [...]

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Simple Performance Tips for Successful Businesswomen

It is said that there are a hundred ways to improve your game, and the most important, perhaps, is to get out there and play it. And we all know that ‘practice makes perfect’, but it can be hard to perfect your game in business when you are dealing with too many uncertainties. Whether in [...]

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