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Mountains & mild peril – 5 business lessons from Striding Edge
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Mountains & mild peril – 5 business lessons from Striding Edge

Mountains & mild peril – 5 business lessons from Striding Edge

On Friday, for my 40th birthday, my husband Ant whisked me away to the Lakes to climb a snowy Helvellyn, via Striding Edge.

He thought I’d appreciate knowing ‘I’ve still got it’ at the age of 40.

If you don’t know it, Striding Edge is about 1 1/2 km of narrow Grade 1 scramble, with sheer drops either side into the valley below. On Friday it was covered in ice and snow.

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Client red flags – the 7 signs you need to uplevel your clients
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Client red flags – the 7 signs you need to uplevel your clients

7 Client Red Flags

This morning I’ve been thinking about client red flags. Sometimes, when you’ve been in business for a while, relationships with clients can get a bit stale. You feel a bit of dread when you see their name flash up on your phone, or the terms of business aren’t great, or there’s just a bit of stickiness around the relationship.

Or maybe you’re in a scrappy phase of your business. You’re fighting to keep going, and build up, and quite frankly are grateful for any client you can get right now.

Maybe you’ve just forgotten the dream, why you went into business in the first place, and who it is you love helping and working with?

Today, I want to call out some red flags, so here are 7 signs that you need to uplevel your clients

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Why your personal mission needs to be your number one priority
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Why your personal mission needs to be your number one priority

Why your personal mission needs to be your number one priority

What’s the point in having a personal mission? Isn’t it all a load of meaningless corporate twaddle anyway?

Well, no, having a personal mission is incredibly important, especially when times are tough.

Here are my top reasons you should put defining your mission at the top of your To-do list:

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