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Focussing on Profit: Why it Won’t Make You Happy

I’m guessing that there are probably very few of us now who have not been affected by rising fuel costs, either at home or in our businesses.  When the rising cost of a common commodity grabs our attention, this can trigger old anxieties around money. This might be focussed on making ends meet at home [...]

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Sustainable Planning: Keys to a simpler future

It can be said that there are only two certainties in our lives – that we will die and that there will be change. The beginning of a new year is traditionally a time for planning but sometimes planning at any time can seem futile when life can be so unpredictable. How do we come [...]

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Tree of Sustainable Business Relationships

I love trees and feel blessed to live in a house that is surrounded by them. Some are huge, majestic and noisy in wild, wintery weather. Some, like my recently planted crab apples, seem perilously fragile by comparison and very dependent on the wooden stakes that support them. It is autumn (fall) here in the [...]

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Time management for downshifters

Have you downshifted and yet still spend your days racing against the clock? One of the bug bears of many of my clients is this: they manage to leave the rat race, to reduce their working hours, to balance their working lives with their personal lives, to find work doing something they truly love BUT [...]

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The Sustainable Small Business

Supposing you’ve made the decision to live more sustainably and are leaving the Rat Race in order to set up in self-employment, doesn’t it makes sense to incorporate sustainability into the new business plan? That way your business will be run in alignment with your interests and values and working in it will ultimately lead [...]

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From Earning a Living to Living Your Dream – Finding your Ideal Vocation

Do you find yourself trapped in a job you don’t enjoy but which you continue with in order to pay the bills? My experience from coaching individual clients and from running teleclasses on downshifting is that this is a very sticky issue with many people. “Earning a living” is what most of us do, isn’t [...]

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