Hey there lady-friend. Look, I’m not a big fan of new year’s resolutions. BUT today I’m going to share with you a promise I made to myself this time last year. I want it to be your commitment to yourself in 2018. I originally wrote this as […]
Do you have a self-employed single mum on your gift list this Christmas? Or perhaps you don’t know what to asked your loved ones for? Maybe you’d even like to treat yourself, I know I’m going to! Either way, I’ve got THE gift guide for you! Planners/stationery […]
Get to bed early. Seriously, getting more sleep is THE ANSWER to everything. It sounds obvious, but all too often sleep falls to the bottom of the list. There’s always one more thing to do, one more job to tick off, and before you know it it’s […]
Do you have an evening routine? I bet you have. We all have certain rituals we perform before tucking ourselves in for the night. Even if it’s just washing our face and brushing our teeth. But have you thought about how to use your evening routine to […]
OK today I’m sharing THE best piece of advice I was given when I was thinking about quitting my job to become self-employed. Start budgeting with YNAB. I’d posted in a Facebook group for freelancers and entrepreneurs asking for advice from any single parents in the group. […]
“Just because my plan A didn’t work out didn’t mean plan B couldn’t be really kickass. In fact, who was to tell me that my life as a single mother couldn’t be completely wonderful.” When I read these words in Emma Johnson’s new book Kickass Single Mom I […]
Quick question – how do you feel about growing your blog, your email list, or your social media following? What about your blogging process? If you’re anything like me, the words ‘overwhelmed’, ‘overworked’, and ‘totally baffled’ might come to mind. Earlier this year I was feeling completely swamped […]
We need to talk about Facebook. You can’t deny that genius as it is Facebook is THE best way ever invented to waste time. Hours and hours and hours of it. Days and days. In 2016 Facebook’s own stats revealed that on average we spend nearly an […]
Do you wake up to hundreds of new emails in your inbox every day? Are most of them from companies you once bought something from, or newsletters you forgot you signed up for? You’re probably suffering from inbox overload. I don’t know about you, but an out […]
It’s that time already – here’s my blog income report for June 2017. As you’ll know if you read last month’s report, as I now have a part-time job, these reports are now the additional self-employed income I earn from this blog and my freelance clients. I […]