How to ditch overwhelm

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 …

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 …

40 before 40

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 …

5 Things

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 …

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 …