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Welcome to a little corner of my world – I look forward to sharing some life experiences with you… ‘Do what you love with people you like’ is probably one of my favourite sayings and I’ve finally managed to bring it to fruition.

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Repost from @victoriabeddoesphoto who I was deligh

Repost from @victoriabeddoesphoto who I was delighted to catch up with again recently. Victoria was one of the first people to stay and take gorgeous photos of @dimpsey_glamping back in 2015! She’s a gorgeous lady with an incredible eye for her photos - and intimate weddings and portraits is her absolute passion.
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Oh my, when I had the chance to photograph the incredible @emmawarren_1, I jumped at the chance. I really wanted to capture Emma’s beauty that is so filled with natural warmth, her strength, vision and creativity. 💕Emma is a real inspiration to me in the way that she gives so much to the female community, the way she leads and her eye for detail is like no one I’ve ever met! Always feel so privileged to be around Emma.

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Old maps, new stories... I found this map when I

Old maps, new stories...

I found this map when I was searching for a prop for a photo shoot. I ordered it and then thought no more of it, until it arrived…

It came out of the envelope and as I looked at it I realised that it held the story of many journeys. Journeys that will never be mine to know but entrancing all the same.

With me, it starts a different journey, its age and battered beauty, adding to, not detracting from, its use for me.

You see I believe that our forward path is made up of learned experience from our past, and our curiosity and appetite for new experiences in the future.

Our learned experience from the past helps us make decisions, sometimes good, sometimes bad, about the path that we will take for the future.

A map helps spot where these paths might lead us. It doesn’t provide the answers, it doesn’t necessarily stop us from making decisions, but it does give us an overview of where we are and where we might end up.

In business, we need all of these things - some experience (our own or from others around us), a map for us to understand where we might go and the curiosity and the daring to take the first step on the journey…

How about you - do you like a map or do you prefer to fly blind?

I find it mildly amusing that @formidableover40 &

I find it mildly amusing that @formidableover40 & I will be like Harry & Meg’s warm-up act tonight-I mean, no pressure eh?!

Seriously though, I’m delighted that we’re going to spend an hour together chatting, but there’s no telling where we’ll end up, as our chats are usually quite wide ranging!

Our main reason for scheduling a chat was to celebrate International Women’s Day, and to pop a high five into the air for all the many women we know, who like us, juggle busy work, Mum and life days.

Juggling priorities is never easy and whenever one of them has a bit of a conflict with another one, the rest of the priorities seem to sense it and start agitating for attention too - when all you want to do is to tell them to form an orderly queue and you’ll deal with them in turn!

But life’s not like that is it? It doesn’t arrive all neatly ordered and in a manageable schedule - it usually presents like a tangle of knotted necklace chains that need a bit of shaking and picking to set them straight.

It’s really easy to see multi-tasking as the answer and to a certain extent it is, but not when you’re trying to unpick the necklace chain in 3 different places at once, as ultimately you clear one knot but also pull another one into place.

Over the years, Sarah and I have both learnt to manage this dynamic - to be sparing with the multi-tasking and more importantly - to select what we can’t/don’t want to do as carefully as we select what we do want to do.

We see sharing this experience as a really important leg up for other people - it’s not that we necessarily know more, it’s just that, with a few miles on the clock, we’ve had the chance to see a bit more and work out what works - for us.

The addition on the end of the last sentence is an important one - it works for us. Whatever you hear in life, you need to look at it and decide if it could work for you. It’s not always the case that it will, but looking at things and considering them opens you up to the possibility that you can learn from other people’s successes/ trial & error - and that in itself might save you some time and anguish.

So, see you there?

March 8th 7pm on @formidableover40 insta.

Call it serendipity if you like... But, after my

Call it serendipity if you like...

But, after my last post updating you on a bit of a lightbulb moment about values, I ended up doing some work with someone I have mentored for long time & as we worked through an issue, it turned out to be values related - so obvious when it emerged but it hadn’t been easy to spot.

Values - “one’s principles or judgement of what’s important in life.”

This would suggest that they inform how we think & what we do, but very often they’re not obvious to us. If someone asked you to list your values, you’d probably name a couple, have a think & then a few more would come to mind.

They’re usually subliminal & difficult to spot, even though they underpin most things we do - a bit like the foundations of buildings.

However, if we tune in to our bodies, we can feel when we’re compromising them, we feel uncomfortable about what we’re about to do, we might even try to avoid doing it.

Anyway, back to the issue in hand.

My special skill is that I can see business paths, not just the normal ones - the more unusual ones too. I used to do it for a living & coach people, but now I mainly do it for my own businesses. However, there’s a very select group of people I still work with. I scope out their business development and chew through issues with them that they can’t see their way around themselves.

So, an opportunity had arisen, on paper it looked like the right thing to do, from a financial value point of view it stacked up - but something wasn’t right. A bit of digging around & sure enough that naughty values gremlin was the problem.

It did make sense on paper, but it didn’t tick the box of some personally important values & it was clear that this could cause problems later.

So we went back to core values & by centring the solution around them, we ticked the values box as well as the value one & resolved it.

Values based decision making is really powerful & sets you up from the get go, because when you work in tune with your own personal & business values, decision making is easy.

So, values are the first thing that we’ll be looking at in my new course - I’m working on it right now and can’t wait to share it with you 🥰

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