How can you dedicate time this week, this month or this quarter to reviewing education you have received and implementing what you have learned?

How often do you feel like you’re “winning” in your business? Perhaps you’re laughing out loud right now, thinking, “Winning??!!? What’s that?”

Curious to know why I’d be leaving the 'gram? Nodding in agreement, wishing you were off social too? Wondering why anyone who runs a small business would even consider moving away from such a brand-building platform?

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that we take far too much for granted. The whole year was a huge reminder of what’s really important.

How much do you love your business? Perhaps you’ve lost the initial love you had at the beginning? Perhaps you’re loving it more than ever?

Where do you sit on the whole new-year-new-opportunity spectrum?

I wanted today, firstly, to say a giant T H A N K Y O U to all of you. When restrictions first hit for my location, back in March, I genuinely felt - for the first time in five years - that I might lose my business.

How often do you feel a sense of being an imposter or that you're somehow just making it all up as you go along?

These are the books you won't be throwing out when it comes to de-cluttering, but rather ones you'll refer back to you again and again.

I’m all for planning, I really am. But I do find that when I work with many small business owners, and we dive into their plans there’s an abundance of tactics but little strategy.

What have you found hard to master for your business? For me, one of the hardest has been a word. Yep, there is one word it has taken me years to conquer in business.

This year has thrown up so many unknowns, so many challenges and so many obstacles for small business owners.

How many “good” friends do you have? You know, the kind you can 100% rely on, through the good and bad times to be there regardless of what else is going on? The kind that you feel respected by and treated as a complete equal?

Performance reviews can bring up all sorts of things, including what we're not doing well. It's not the easiest thing to own up to being part of the problem in any area of life, especially in business

We are only a couple of months away from 2020 coming to a close and —depending on what you sell in your business — you may also be on the cusp of one of the busiest periods of the last 12 months (#HelloGiftingSeason).

I wanted to remind you to consider your own mental health. How much time and effort do you put into maintaining it?