Emotion and money
The Oxford Dictionary defines Emotion as “A strong feeling deriving from one’s circumstances, mood or relationship with others”. Well I certainly experienced these “strong feelings” over the past few days! My first husband and I still share one financial commitment and for the past few months he has reneged on his part of the bargain, [...]
Do your clients really deserve you…?
To be at your most efficient you should be spending 80% of your time with your top 20 clients… so what determines the top 20? Is it how much money they spend with you? How quickly they pay? How nice they are to work with? What parameters do you set? There is always going to [...]
Guest Blog: Thinking on our feet in tough times
A guest blog from Jon Stow I feel for the many people who have lost their jobs in the last year or so. In a previous cycle I found myself without a job, and at pretty short notice. Like many others then and now, I did not at first think it would be difficult to [...]
Guestblog: What we should really be putting in our knicker drawer
Image via Wikipedia “I am having an out of money experience.” ~ Author Unknown Money – that final taboo that we still, even in this age of alleged openness hate talking about. My Mum had a hairy fit when I started working in Financial Services (she wanted me to be a librarian, “such a nice job”) [...]
If you had enough money to retire right now, would you?
I came across this as a sneaky interviewer question whilst researching for a book I was writing on redundancy. Yet it set me thinking: Would YOU? How much money would be ‘enough’ for you? If you had that amount, what would you be doing differently? Which led me on to: What are you doing that [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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