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the coven

Ever felt lonely whilst working on your business?

Gone freelance and miss the office in-jokes?

Wish you were part of an online community who has your back through the highs and the lows?

Want to join us and be supported by hundreds of members every single day?

Fancy having access to a few business worksheets and workshops along the way?

Welcome to The Coven.

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I don’t work on Sunday’s...full stop and if at all possible I don’t work Saturday’s either although I do let the odd sneaky work session in. I don’t budge on Sunday’s though...today I am chilling out to the max. I’m going to watch some Fear the walking dead and then stroll down the beach, grab some lunch and read a book. I haven’t worked on Sunday’s for a while now but it wasn’t always this way, for a few years I worked flat out and was the person in charge of doing absolutely everything for my business. I was well aware this couldn’t be my life forever because I was severely lacking in down time and out of work activities/friendships/family time so I started to outsource and to slow down and drop a day or two, start working hours that resemble a ‘normal’ job, not necessarily starting at 9 and ending at 5 but a 40 hour week instead of a 60+ hour week. It has taken a long time of solo running to get here but I feel very lucky to now be a place in my business where I am not in charge of doing every single thing and can delegate things to other members of the team/outsource which thus enables me to be able to happily take my weekends off. I actually look forward to Monday’s now and rarely loose motivation, I’m usually wanting to work on the weekend and dying to get cracking with a new idea but I force myself not too and to see friends instead, balance is key. This isn’t a great post if you’re just starting out and I don’t want it to frustrate any newbies on the business block, I’m hoping instead it might spur you on, keep you motivated knowing that your hard work will pay off and you WILL get a work/life balance. I guess this is more aimed at those who’s business isn’t brand new any more and has started to see some growth, I think messages are rarely aimed at that group of people, it’s all start ups or big businesses, not the inbetweeners. I’m rambling today and I apologise but basically my message to you is a) you’re allowed to take weekends off b) outsourcing is ok. At some point you have to let others into your team in order for you to grow and take the next step. #thisonesforthestillsmallbutslightlybiggerbusinesses ... catchy. YOU CAN DO THIS!!! People often tell you to reach for the stars but very rarely do they tell you to stay focused on the stars everyday... so I’m going to be that person who tells you today. Do you know what one of the major things that holds a business back is? I mean there are countless things but the thing I see time and time again is this: they start off reaching for the stars and then they lose focus and get lost in the day to day. Never stop focusing on the BIGGER picture. You need to be stepping outside the nitty gritty of the business, you know what I’m talking about... packing orders, replying to emails, doing your accounts, designing new products, updating your website. We get lost in smashing through our to do lists, every day is just another day where you need to get everything on the list done. But the businesses that grow are the ones who wheedle out time to focus ON the business, how it’s growing, how it’s going to grow, checking monthly targets, planning each quarter, working out where the business is going and what’s working, scrapping things that aren’t working and being analytical as well as passionate (I.e scrapping a product or changing direction if something isn’t selling/your audience isn’t interested). Creating strategies every day and thinking like a CEO. Every day I am planning The Coven’s growth, I’m far more focused ON the business than inside it... to the point I only put three things on my to do list a day unless it’s a special occasion like pre event or pre launch. My times spent being strategic and over analysing everything I, and the Coven team do. So, focus on the stars, every day, the stars are your driving force and focusing on them is how you get there. Ring a bell anyone??? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ image by the babe @yanyancandyng 🔥. On another note... we only literally have a few spaces left in The Coven and by a few I mean under 5 which is MENTAL. Doors will close as soon as those last five spots have gone which is looking like it’s going to be today that we close, a whole 9 days earlier than planned because you guys SNAPPED up those last spots. Welcome to the gang to everyone who’s signed up recently, I’m very excited to get to know you better and watch you get settled into the community. 🙏🏼💃🏻✨ WHAT A DAY Good morning my babes of insta 🙋🏻‍♀️, today calls for more real talk. The majority of people live their lives based on other people’s opinions, it could be your parents, your siblings, Sally who lives down the road or Susan (and all the others) who follows you on social media. Which massively sucks, like REALLY sucks. Do you know how much that holds you back? It takes balls and a whole load of courage to step and decide to live life based on YOU and not anyone else but it’s so powerful when you do. Nothing gives you as much freedom as living a life free of anyone else’s opinion of you. You are amazing and strong and capable of so many things REGARDLESS of what a random person on Twitter, whom you’ve never met thinks. Today’s the day you switch the mindset and live life (and run your business) based on you, what you want and what makes you happy. The moment you start letting other people’s opinions brush past you straight into the bin is the day you really start living. It’s the day well you’ll get up on the dance floor and dance because you want to even though you definitely don’t have moves like Beyoncé. It’s the day you’ll start posting up content on social media regularly and as often as possible that gets you excited and brings value to your customer because you don’t fear people’s thoughts on it. It’s the day you’ll set goals that actually get you fired up because they are based on what you want and not what society thinks you should want. If you do anything this year... throw other people’s opinions of you in the f*cking bin. HAVE A BANGING DAY 🚀

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