Given up on Resolutions? How about trying accounting for a change?
This week’s post is by Mark Leruste, a former overweight corporate burnout turned men’s health activist, ICF professional certified coach, award winning social entrepreneur, plant-based sponsored...
View ArticleThe Introvert’s Guide To Networking & Tax
I’m an introvert. I love working from home and networking online. With face to face networking events, no matter how much I enjoyed them, a lot of people in a room drained my energy. It can feel just...
View ArticleThe 4-Step Style Plan To Prevent Procrastination
Hands up who procrastinates? Let me share with you a piece blogged by one of my clients about how to tackle procrastination whilst retaining one’s style. I know Natalia’s piece will inspire you to make...
View ArticleWhy Decluttering Your Accounts Is Like Afternoon Tea
Afternoon tea is a luxurious pleasure. Freshly baked scones, finger sandwiches, melt in the mouth pastries. And the best part of all, beautiful quality loose leaf tea served in bone china. Pure...
View ArticleWhy Cake Is The Key Tool For Your Blogging Tax Return
You’re a professional blogger or you want to be. You enjoy cake. You don’t enjoy doing your tax return or accounts. You prefer to have your cake and eat it. You want a profitable successful blog on...
View Article6 Ways To Avoid Your Accounts
Some business owners are a whizz doing their accounts. They just do them. If you’re feeling, ‘really, that doesn’t happen to me’, I’m with you. Me neither. It’s not the best and most comfortable...
View ArticleTax Return Balm: Your Natural Stress Relief
Tax returns can feel overwhelmingly stressful. Whether it’s your first tax return, you’ve done it before yourself rather uneasily, or you have new income to enter and don’t know what to do with it, it...
View ArticleAccounting Tips During School Holidays
It’s the summer holidays. How are you going to prioritise rest and recuperation, looking after your children, run your business, and keep up with your accounts? Maybe even file your tax return by the...
View Article5 Ways To Save Time Doing Your Receipts
Keeping records of your receipts can feel soooo tedious. Can’t I just bin them dammit, I hear you cry! All those bits of paper in my purse, wallet, pockets, handbag, everywhere! Receipts are a...
View ArticleAre Your Paypal Records Driving You Crazy?
Paypal is one of the best inventions of the interwebz in my opinion. It makes receiving, sending and paying safe and secure. However. Paypal is a bitch when it comes to doing your record keeping. A...
View ArticleWhen Life Happens: Taking A Blogging Break
Life happens. It’s one reason why we have our own business or blog. For some of us, we have both. It’s good to have space to share. We’re not automatons. We have lives and one of the most powerful...
View ArticleBreak Through Your Money Blocks
(This is especially for you if you want to start freelancing, go to the next level, or are sick and tired of being stressed about money and you’ve finally had enough dammit!) Hands up who wants to...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Shoes When Starting A Business
I’d like to introduce Lizzie Cheeld, virtual PA to creative types (like me), who guest posts for me today about how important shoes are in her newly minted business. It’s incredible I haven’t yet...
View ArticleHow To Stop Fear Of Visibility Keeping You Small
You know when you’re ready for growth, tired of playing small and just a teensy bit terrified that if you don’t unstick your business, you’ll stay small? When you’re really really scared how it’s going...
View ArticleHow To Balance Your Cash Flow
Cash flow is the difference between having a business and being broke. If your business – and you- can’t pay its bills when its bills are due, then you have a problem. (and to those businesses who can...
View ArticleWhy Hiring A VA Relieves Your Accounts Overwhelm
It’s Sunday afternoon. It’s been a long week. You’re settling down to watch a film and get a rest, finally, when you spy a box sitting innocently on the corner of your coffee table. It’s a lovely box....
View ArticleHow To Save Your Tax Return So You Can Find It
You’re diligent about saving your self assessment tax return to your laptop or computer every year. You know how important it is to have that file, and to have at least 2 backups, in different places....
View ArticleHow To Use Essential Oils For Your Tax Return
I LOVE essential oils. It’s like inhaling nature. In fact, essential oils are one of my little secrets for why my tax return is done by the end of the summer and not in January (yes, it used to be...
View ArticleCan You Hire Friends In Your Business & Not Fall Out?
There’s so much advice about hiring friends in your business. OMG don’t do it, it’s a disaster! OMG, you’ll LOVE it, best thing I ever did! To be clear I’m talking about hiring your friend in a...
View ArticleLeaving The EU: What It Means For Your Business
It’s been like a rollercoaster without a seatbelt since the result of the UK EU referendum. It’s time to gather our energies and adjust to whatever the new realities are going to be. I’ll be...
View ArticleLeaving The EU: What It Means For EU VAT
Leaving the EU so far has been a lot like Madonna’s song, Hung Up. As Mads says: time goes by so slowly… every little thing that you say or do… I’m hung up on you. It can feel hard to tear ourselves...
View Article3 reasons cake belongs with bookkeeping
Let me tell you a story. When I was 5 I went to school one day and the class was doing baking in the afternoon. You can imagine it can’t you, 30 5-year-olds all under the care of one teacher. Mrs Wood...
View ArticleWhat have you done today to make you feel proud?
We all need to feel good about ourselves. Joanne Dewberry is encouraging everyone to write about what you’re really proud of in your business. I’m proud of combining emotional support with practical...
View ArticleCan I Do My Own Tax Return?
Yes! (usually) You’re a one man band, you freelance, you’re a micro business owner. Can you do your own self assessment tax return? Let’s break it down into limited company directors and sole traders...
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