So many mums come to me and say, “There aren’t enough hours in the day!” It can be so difficult juggling work commitments and family life but it can be done simply by valuing your time and using it wisely!

Realise you cannot do everything at once and acknowledge that there are areas that may waste your time! Addressing these two issues will free up time you had lost so you can spend it in a way that works for you.

Every day mums face a different set of challenges and our minds get cluttered with everything we have to consider. Try to break your day down into set hours in which you allocate k...

When you set up your business it is probable you did it to ensure you had the required flexibility to be there when your family needed you. Of course as businesses get busier and more demanding, this flexibility can be challenged. Here are some great tips to ensuring you fully enjoy your family life whilst managing a successful business.

Work To Core Hours

If you can, keep the time you spend working to key core hours that work for you and your family. If you cannot commit to a more specific working schedule i.e. 9.15-2.30 on a Monday, plan a normal week’s schedule template outlining your pre...

If you are a mum living locally to Northwich in Cheshire, I would like to invite you to join Empowering Mums Together, a fabulous and fun new group created especially for mums!

Empowering Mums Together! provides essential support to help you to achieve the life you really want to live, overcome a variety of mum-related challenges that get in the way, increase your confidence and self-esteem to embrace life’s opportunities, gives you the opportunity to meet like-minded mums in the area enabling you to create an essential support network and to enjoy some valuable me-time with coffee and cupcak...

Mums’ Struggles Made Simple [MSMS]

Enjoying the ideal life balance that works to make you happy and fulfilled is wonderful. Suddenly everything seems to be working in harmony and you can enjoy life. When life is imbalanced because of clashing routines and lack of time, life can seem frustrating and stressful.

If you feel like your life balance needs attention, this quarter’s Mums’ Struggles Made Simple [MSMS] can help. I would like to invite you to complete this survey so I can understand the issues and challenges you face when it comes to finding the right life balance for you. Ensuring all...

Identifying and understanding your customer is key to a successful business. Marketing your business to a targeted group is powerful and it will save you both time and money long-term. The audience you must identify and focus on is one whose needs you can meet and one that will give you the best return on investment.

Cost Saving

Trying to be all things to all people can be exhausting and challenging. Without a limitless spending budget and all the time in the world, it can be nigh on impossible. What will save you money, and time, is marketing your brand to people or businesses you know hav...

Mums’ Struggles Made Simple [MSMS]

Thank you so much to those mums who took part in my Confidence For Life survey throughout April. As promised, following on from the solutions I provided to the first half of the survey on my blog in May, I will now share with you the range of results, challenges and situations you are experiencing along with some tips and solutions for the remaining survey questions, which will enable you to welcome confidence, balance and joy into your life once and for all!

v) Do you celebrate everything you do? Celebrating being a good mum is essential to lifelong happin...

Calling mums local to the Northwich, Cheshire area!

• Would you like to invite confidence, balance and joy into your life once and for all?
• Would you like to meet like-minded mums to share experiences, overcome common obstacles and build new friendships?
• Would you like to enjoy some time-out to focus solely on you each month?
• Would you like to support a fabulous local charity and give something back to our fantastic community?

You can do all this and more by attending Empowering Mums Together! This unique group for mums is dedicated to helping you to achieve the life you really want to ...

Do you remember summer holidays way back when you couldn’t wait to get to the beach wearing your skimpiest bikini, ready to impress whoever looked your way? Nowadays, do you look upon family holidays with a pang of dread, wondering how much of yourself you can hide under your sarong, sun hat and layers of Factor 40?

Of course, I’m an absolute advocate of staying safe in the sun but my point here is all about having summer-ready confidence! For so many mums, the summer months, family holidays and heat tend to mean difficult clothing choices and frizzy hair! So, how can you approach this summer...

Life as a 21st Century mum can be challenging and exhausting as we try to fit as much into our lives as possible. Add to that the pressures we place on ourselves to do everything properly as well as the expectations we think others have of us, is it any wonder we struggle from time to time?

What we really must celebrate about 21st Century women is their ability to cope and succeed in a vast array of situations. As a successful mumpreneur, you juggle your family life with a successful business, and somehow you manage to complete everything that needs to get done week after week.

The difficult...

Mums' Stuggles Made Simple [MSMS]

Thank you so much to those mums who took part in my Confidence For Life survey throughout April. A range of answers were returned, demonstrating the range of perspectives, challenges and situations we all collectively experience. I will now respond to your answers and share some solutions to the first half of the survey to enable you to welcome confidence, balance and joy into your life once and for all!

i) I asked if you could remember a time when you felt more self-assured than you do now.

The majority who responded felt you lost your self-assurance to yo...