No matter the size of your business - a one-woman show, or a budding empire like Go-To Skincare - you know that heart and soul is what all modern, conscious businesses need.

It is the realisation that we shouldn’t be in competition with each other (especially with other women!), which is the catalyst for forming strong, meaningful connections with others.

There’s been a giant push to wellness in recent years, with the pandemic as the catalyst. It’s prompted conversations and questions around productivity and rest.

I’m here to help you navigate the trickiness of taking time out for yourself and the importance of actually removing yourself entirely from your business even just for a day or two.

I honestly never gave any thought to this topic on educating the client on how best to talk to me about their thoughts and comments until I stumbled on this post. (Seriously, she is so good at what she does). So I’m going to artfully ‘steal’ some of her tips and add a few extras that I’ve picked up over the years. 

I want to show you what is truly possible when you start believing it is — especially as a business owner. The positivity loop is not about having a consistent stream of unending positivity — that’d be weird. But, instead it’s about a constant process of evolution. This state of being is all it takes to retrain your brain and unlearn behaviours.

Here’s everything I’ve learnt since owning a business.

I thought I knew a lot about business and how to do things. Ha! I was so wrong. Nothing like a humble moment when you’ve bitten off more than you can chew and all of a sudden, you’re in the deep end of the swimming pool and have no choice but to swim. So, let’s get into it – the 5 most important lessons I learnt in my first year of business.