I recently left my 9-5 and started my own business! I’d done it before when I was running my businesses in South Africa, but I was also still studying - so routine & focus was haphazard at best. I challenged myself at the beginning of last week to take notice and really track what I was learning about myself and this new way of working so that I could improve. Here’s what I’ve learnt…

This year I started looking at my year in quarters instead of an entire 12 months. I planned what I thought I could achieve or wanted to tackle for the year, but took pause, stock and reviewed this every three months. This has been one of the most impactful practices that has allowed me to live with intention this year.

I want to talk about creating space for you to think these big thoughts. For the longest time when I was challenged by a new concept or had a paradigm shifted, I felt the need to go full tilt. Buy a notebook, order 20 books on the subject, announce it online and make a big life change…