• 4 Ways Employee Systems Don’t Build Businesses

    4 Ways Employee Systems Don’t Build Businesses

    What if you aren’t stuck? What if you just need different scaffolding. You’ve been working for other people for years. Now you want something different. You want a side hustle. Or maybe you want to start your own full-time business. You’ve taken the first steps. You’ve got a plan. A domain. Social handles. You’ve even

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  • 7 Reasons Your Side Hustle Still Hasn’t Started (When You’re So Good at Your Job)

    7 Reasons Your Side Hustle Still Hasn’t Started (When You’re So Good at Your Job)

    What would happen if you stopped blaming yourself and started looking at your system? You’ve got a brilliant idea for a side hustle. You’ve bought the domain, secured the social handles, told the world it’s coming. Then nothing. It’s not that you aren’t excited about the idea. You’ve always wanted to run your own business.

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  • 7 Reasons You’re a Better Runner than You Think

    7 Reasons You’re a Better Runner than You Think

    Running imposter syndrome is lying to you. Stop believing it. I ran my first marathon after a year of running. Sort of running. I’d done the Great North Run with vague training, run sporadically over the year, and had no real clue what I was doing. No coach. No run group. Just a Runner’s World

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  • 5 Tiny Actions for Energy (That Make Your Days Feel like Yours)

    5 Tiny Actions for Energy (That Make Your Days Feel like Yours)

    You’ve spotted the pattern, identified the advice. Now what? Put it into action. Take the patterns you spotted in the Exhaustion Test and the advice you’re shaping to fit your life. Now change something. We are sticking to small, tiny actions. The ones that feel so simple they can’t possibly work. But which compound over

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  • Make Productivity Advice Work: 8 Ways to Adapt it for You

    Make Productivity Advice Work: 8 Ways to Adapt it for You

    You’ve followed every piece of productivity advice out there. Workspace? Optimised. Calendar? Time blocked and colour coded. Notifications? Off. There’s no advice you haven’t taken. Followed to the letter, in fact. You’ve got a standing desk. You take walks. Shine a natural light lamp on your face. The Pomodoro method rules your day. So, why

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  • The Exhaustion Test: 10 Signs Your Version of Success Isn’t Yours

    The Exhaustion Test: 10 Signs Your Version of Success Isn’t Yours

    Your life looks great on paper. Job title – check. Salary – decent. Busy calendar – impressively full. You’re ticking all the boxes. So why does it feel like you’re running on empty? Because those aren’t your boxes. You’re chasing someone else’s version of success and wondering why it’s so exhausting. That’s what this exhaustion

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