Personal Coaching to Embrace Life, Change, and the Future
Here’s one of the vision boards created by a participant at the workshop earlier this month. I look forward to hearing about how this person’s vision grows and builds as it comes into fruition this year!
I love the images representing balance; something lots of us strive to achieve in our lives.
What are you planning to achieve this year? What would you like to have achieved when you look back in a year’s time? If you want to create your best year yet, come to my workshop!
I received my gorgeous Moon Tyger Tea in the post this morning and I was genuinely impressed to find a hand-written note inside my package. It made it so much more personal, and makes me want to go back to this company again. Sometimes we forget the little touches which can make such a difference to our products and services, which keep the customers happy and coming back.
Which companies have impressed you with their personal service? If you run a business, how have you tried to make your service personal? Please comment and share! 🙂
I bought Lemon Verbena tea, Tyger Moon (Chrysanthemum, green and white tea leaves) and Jasmine pearls
The tiny pearls of Jasmine flower slowly unfurl in your cup, releasing the delicate flavour
As you may know, I am a member of the Wonderful Women’s networking group run by the fabulous ReeRee Rockette. We meet once a month for full meetings, and are invited to smaller meetings depending on our particular needs. The meetings usually have a theme and so far we have discussed topics like using social media, branding, marketing, webdesign and copyright. Today’s theme was about setting goals, which is the sort of thing that I know works, given my NLP background!
Each of the women articulated in words one goal for their business in the next 5 years, 3 years, coming year and 6 months. Many of us were saying it was difficult to start with, but by the end we had lots! We also tweeted our goals so that we weren’t just saying them to each other, but were putting them out there to the world (or at least our followers). As we all agreed, how can you know if you’re there if you don’t know where you’re going? We also tried to have measureable and specific goals. Needless to say I came back very excited and fired up about the goals I had set for myself this afternoon. I was even more excited to see that a few Twitter followers said that my goals summed up what they wanted to do and gave them some clarity and support. That made it even more worthwhile!
We met at the delightful vintage cafe Drink Shop and Do on Caledonian Road.
Picture: ReeRee Rockette
Picture: ReeRee RocketteAmongst our group of women this month we had our host, ReeRee Rockette, owner of Rockalily London Make-up, photographer Tigz Rice, Editor of New Empress Magazine Helen Cox, The Thrify Stitcher Claire-Louise, and sound engineer at Sounds Wilde Kirsty Gillmore. We also had the owner of Wonderland Wigs Sam, milliner LittleMissB, hair and make-up artist Miss Honey-Bare, Lizzie of Betty Blues Loungerie and burlesque performer Duchess Divine as well as new member Rosie who is considering her business options! We are quite a diverse bunch, but inspite of this and being at different stages of running our own businesses, we all contribute and gain so much from our meetings.
I attended my monthly business network meeting this Sunday, which as always left my head buzzing with ideas. We are a group of self employed women who meet every month to share our experiences, knowledge and expertise about going it alone. Our meetings are interspersed with online communication through a forum. The topic of this weekend’s meeting was copyright and trademarking, including intellectual property. As the film The Social Network has just been awarded 8 Oscar nominations, intellectual property is all the rage! Some of the women had first hand experience of other people stealing content from their sites or blatantly copying their ideas or designs, so this was a good way to learn about how to protect ourselves.
These were some of the biscuits I baked with my 12-year-old niece and took to the meeting with me
At the end of each meeting, we make a list of goals we aim to achieve this month and share them around the group. The next meeting starts with a review of how we faired. I find that it’s a great way to keep motivated and to celebrate how I’ve got on as I have a group of well-wishers on hand, who have lots of ideas and words of encouragement. Between us we know so many people and have many different areas of expertise, so this way, we can pool our resources and support one another.
