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  11 Agenda Items you can use to plan your business week When we are working for an employer or as part of a team, meetings often serve as touchstones for actions and activities. They help with brainstorming new ideas and solutions and, if recorded, they provide a reminder of tasks which need doing and can even celebrate wins. So what do you do when you work for yourself, are your own boss, and maybe don’t have employees or a team – you hold meetings with yourself! Don’t laugh … it works really well. Have regular meetings with yourself -  it works really well! Having regular meetings with yourself helps you focus on what’s important. You can set an agenda, follow through and follow up the next week to see what you’ve achieved. You can set goals, itemise the steps you need to take to get to the end and record how you did. The notes will help you reflect and serve as a bit of a road map, as well as a good aid to your memory if you want to do a similar project again. Do...

I write a lot - so why don't I write for myself? I write a lot - and I mean, a LOT. I write for other people, I write notes about client meetings, I email for all sorts of reasons, I write minutes and plans and processes, media releases and reports, but what I have trouble doing is finding, or rather making, the time to write for my own business and myself. So what's with that? I've given a lot of thought recently about how procrastination about your own business promotion and marketing leads to such a range of mixed feelings - from anxiety to low self esteem, to fear and other complex issues which surround entrepreneurs and small business owners. We often talk the good talk, urge our clients to take action and take action on their behalf, but like the car mechanic who may have the worst behaving vehicle in the neighbourhood, we seem totally incapable of making ourselves get on with working on our business instead of in it! When I look back at the few blog post...