Are you considering starting your own business to achieve self sufficiency? It takes a special kind of crazy to start up your own business to achieve self sufficiency. In a world where stability and security are so desperately clung to, and for very good reasons, why would someone think to jeopardise that with wild notions …
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If you’re reading this article because the title made you look twice, and wonder… what??? You wouldn’t be the first. I was the first person to do that. As I have grappled with the concept of coaching how to Permaculture Your Business, taking 3 very separate things to blend them into one, I gave myself …
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Have a good look at this image. Several stacks of coins, each growing consecutively larger, each one topped by a seedling of an undetermined plant, which also grows with each consecutive stack, until you get to a large jar of coins with a larger plant. This image has been used many times, probably because it’s …
When I was quite young, my parents had a Reader’s Digest book called “Back to Basics”. They were always such great examples to me of living sustainably, even though we were living in suburban Los Angeles at the time. They still managed to have vegetable gardens, raise animals, Mum would make her own soap, bake …
Once upon a time, a typical business would be established on a few core principles, and would run some marketing, deliver as promised, and responsibly manage the finances, with a high likelihood of being successful. This was back in a time when the world was far less complicated. Since then, however, the world has steadily …
I recently spent some time with a gorgeous creative woman who was starting her own business for the first time, but knew nothing about running a business. We were going through the fundamentals of what she would need to do. Right at the end of our time, she asks me: “When will I know if …
There are too many variables when starting a business to be able to provide a comprehensive checklist that would cover all the actions required for all types of businesses, but here is a list of the general basics. Each of these steps has volumes of further information available, and it’s important to research and have …
I recently had an enlightening chat with Hannah Wilson from H Bookkeeping in Sydney. I wanted to get in touch with the experience of starting a bookkeeping business today, and see what had changed from when I started my bookkeeping business way back in 2005. Hannah kind-of fell into bookkeeping from her receptionist/admin job, learning …
Have you ever had a goal in mind, and it starts off being so very inspiring? And so incredibly powerful that your motivation to work towards it is through the roof? But then life wears us down, and challenges and oppositions remain, our perseverance towards these goals wanes, and weakens, and begins to lose energy. …
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If you think about the flow of actions during the course of running your business, we can start to see that often, money problems in business are not a finance problem. Think about it: you start with the two pillars of your business. Your product or service, and the customer. Without one of these, there …