Being a blogger and even making your living from blogging is amazing. However, it does come with it’s own set of problems; long hours, lots of stress, and to-do lists that are often off the scale. Add in your family, pets, friends and the demands of daily life and it can be very easy to become overwhelmed. As bloggers, we tend to do …
87 awesome post ideas to rock your content calendar
87 awesome post ideas to rock your content calendar As bloggers we often feel a pressure to come up with new content. Whether you post daily or weekly, sometimes we can be left lacking a little in inspiration. When this happens, it’s good to have a back up of possible ideas, which might just spark some great post ideas …
2016 blog review; Highs, lows and a-has
Last month I ran a challenge for over 250 bloggers. We assessed our year and made killer plans to ensure we all kick-butt in 2017. I shared my goals last week, but I also wanted to reflect on 2016 for my blog. I think it’s important to learn from the things that didn’t go as planned, let the lessons we …
2017 Blogging Goals
At the start of December I organised and ran the 2016 Wrap Party for over 240 bloggers. The idea behind the week long course, with Facebook lives, was to assess your 2016 blog performance and set goals for 2017. Setting goal in a slightly different way to most, by working on 90 day cycles. 90 day cycles have been …
Supercharge your blog for the rest of 2016
Summer feels like a distant memory, the shops are beginning to stock Christmas gifts and the air is decidedly chillier. The kids are settled back at school and it’s the perfect time of year to reassess what’s working for your blog and identify the areas which need attention. If you have spent the summer trying to blog around reduced …
How To Save For Different Goals And Succeed
When we have a wide range of different goals that we’d like to accomplish, it can be difficult to set aside money for all of them. Even when we do our best, the task of fulfilling all our aims can seem next to impossible. But thanks to these four helpful strategies, you can achieve all of your financial objectives and …
40 things before I’m 40
It is my 39th birthday on Saturday; wow that seems so weird. While I am not bothered about getting older, I still think, and feel, as if I am in my twenties. It is a bit of a shock that in one year I will be forty! So, I decided to set myself a challenge to achieve 40 things that …
My Personal and Blogging Goals For 2016
I’m not sure about you, but I am pretty rubbish about sticking to resolutions. I might last until mid January if I am lucky, so I think a different approach is needed this year. I feel 2016 is a year of big changes and I am ready to immerse myself in all it has to offer, but to make the …
5 Things; To Achieve Before The End Of The Year
Welcome back to ‘5 Things’, can you believe we are half way through the year! No, me neither, it is racing by. Back in January I wrote a post sharing my 2015 goals and thought it was about time to reassess and refocus for the last 5-6 months on the year. Make Live. Love. Blog a commercial proposition. We love our new collaborative blog …
5 Things; That Can Make Your Dreams Come True
This week I am sharing 5 Things: That Can Make Your Dreams Come True. So I am going to assume you know what your dream is. What would you love to do? When day dreaming where does your mind wander to? Thought of something? Right, that thing, that’s what we are going to talk about. How do we stop it always …
5 Things; I Want to do Before I am 40
Welcome back to ‘5 Things’, this week I thought I would share; Thinking of myself as almost 40 years old is such a strange experience. I have no issues with getting older, or with telling people my age, I am 38 in May (by the way). Yet I still think of myself as in my mid twenties, maybe knocking on the …
7 Steps to Achieve Your Goals + Download #Giveaway
GIVE YOUR DREAMS A DEADLINE WITH ‘7 STEPS TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS’ Do you want to make 2015 the year you really achieve? I do, I have lots of goals for this year and I thought I might need some help in achieving them. So when I was offered 7 Steps to Achieve your Goals to download and review, I …
New Year Resolutions: are they going to plan?
At the beginning of the month I set myself some goals for 2015. The mistake I have made in previous years is not revisiting the goals often enough. They then slip to the back of my mind and sometimes get forgotten about completely. I am guessing I am not on my own. So a month in, how am I doing? As I explained …
5 Things; I will change about myself this year
Welcome to my new series, ‘5 Things’, which will be a nice easy Sunday read. I will kick the series off with; I will change about myself this year I will be more confident I am beginning to realise more and more, that you receive what you project. I truly believe that you have to fake it ’til you make it, …
My 2015 Goals
Although we are a week into the year I wanted to share my goals for 2015, both personal and blogging orientated. I think resolutions can sometimes be a waste of time, they are often forgotten about very quickly. I have chosen to work on things that in some cases may take most of the year to achieve, so for me goals make …
HOSTING: Mums’ List #25
It’s Mums’ List time! This week, the fabulous Hannah, your usual host from Mums’ Days is still on holiday! So Mums’ List is my baby again. For any of you who are new to Mums’ List, you can link any post that is in list/bullet point format, easy! I use mine to record my weekly highlights and remind myself of …









