Energise My Life

I blame the weather. Seriously. I do. I love to run outside. So much that I hadn’t run on a treadmill for a couple of years. But we moved back to Scotland, and I had to accept the need for a treadmill or risk my streak ending due to ice and hellish weather. Little did

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Taking time off from your own business is scary, but planning can make it feel better. As a small business owner or side hustler, you face different challenges with taking time off. There’s the obvious financial factor. You are unlikely to be earning if you aren’t working. But there’s more to it than that. If

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What if the problem isn’t what you’re doing? It’s almost the end of the year. You’re exhausted. You had plans for 2025. Some happened. Most didn’t. You’re ending the year in roughly the same place you started it, wondering where all the time went. Before you write off the whole year as a failure, stop.

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Stop waiting for the perfect moment – you’ve got time left right now. Normally I hit December and mentally write it off, start planning for January. Push any task I can down the road to deal with later. It’s effectively a month off, right? There’s not really enough time to focus on something new. The

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What if the system you need is already working somewhere in your life? You already have systems that work. You just haven’t spotted them yet. Think of a system as a routine. It’s something you put into action without much thought. That doesn’t mean you don’t think about what you are doing, just that the

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You had a good day at work today. Meetings done. Deadlines met. Decisions made. Now it’s evening. You’ve got an hour for your side hustle. And somehow you can’t make yourself do anything. You’re exhausted before you even begin. Not from the work ahead, from everything that came before it. Here are 6 energy drains

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