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SUMMARY:Track your sleep. How can you improve it?
DESCRIPTION:Dream, anxieties, restlessness,\nchecking the phone…\nit doesn’t add up to a good nights’ sleep.\nI’m terrible for having a device next to me at night. See, I enjoy listening\naudiobooks and podcasts to help me sleep, I find this period before sleep\na nice time to engage content that interests me, to learn about a topic or\nengage in learning in something that will help me develop as a person or\nprofessional.\nDoes it help my sleep? I don’t know. But I do try and keep a balance of my\nsleep. If I have an early start I make sure I avoid alcohol, coffee too late in the\nday or an overly heavy meal and I’ll be in bed relatively early to plan ahead\nfor the next day.\nIf I go to sleep anxious it doesn’t help my sleep so I really need to make sure\nthe daily tasks are taken care of where possible and any important emails are\nread, responded to and dealt with. If I go to sleep with unfinished business as\nit were, I can’t settle and I end up checking my phone for emails throughout\nthe night!\nI took Facebook off my phone as an example because the endless notifications\nand checking who does what at some ungodly hour became a habit I needed\nto break.\nHow much sleep do you need?\nHow can you improve your sleep patterns and what habits can you break to\nhelp improve the quality of your kip?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/track-your-sleep-how-can-you-improve-it/
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SUMMARY:Find one hour each day this week to focus on ‘deep work’
DESCRIPTION:Absolute focus on a project during this time.\nReflect on your progress – how much did you achieve?\nSpinning plates makes us busy for busy’s\nsake. Make a change and focus!\nDeep work involves working on a single demanding task without breaking\nfocus for a specific stretch of time. For me, this tends to be 60 minutes (you\nknow, where time flies but you get so much done?)\n\nDeep work might involve:\nResearching your project, work, market place or customer\nWriting thoughtful content based on insight not just information\nAnalysing data to make better decisions for you and the team\nWorking on the strategy of the project or marketing plans of the business.\nShallow work is more tactical, ‘busy’ work and administrative tasks and duties\nthat are often done whilst multi tasking.\nShallow work might entail spinning many plates and multi tasking such as;\nEmail and chat communication (WhatsApp, Messenger)\nData entry and creating reports\nChecking social media for that notification\nHaving a meeting for meetings’ sake or a meeting about the previous\nmeeting.\nTo achieve deep work means to spend uninterrupted time with complete\nfocus on the task at hand. For me, I will block out time in the calendar for\nplanning time, for deep work time. I know that during this time I will be\nuncontainable and will be turning off distractions and notifications that could\ninterrupt.\nI guess there’s a risk that you could try to deep work for the full day, so be\ndisciplined and try to stick to one hour each day this week. You most likely still\nneed to get the tactical side done too so just like avoiding clogging up your\ndiary with shallow work, nor should you just focus on deep work, because\nthen who else is going to do the other stuff?!\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/find-one-hour-each-day-this-week-to-focus-on-deep-work/
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SUMMARY:Do something for the kids this week that they want to do
DESCRIPTION:I remember fondly the times when\nI was young that my parents had all\nattention on me.\nBeing there is one thing, but being present is a wholly different thing. For\nthose with young kids do you ever find yourself blindly swatting the kids away\nas if they were a pest simply for wanting to play with you or show you how\nthey’ve drawn something they want your approval on?\nBut why the swatting away? Well, my social media feeds won’t check\nthemselves! That email refresh needs doing just one more time!\nI find it horrible that this is a habit picked up by so many (myself included).\nImagine what this is showing to the kids; their position in the pack and their\nperceived lack of interest in what you show of their work.\nI create times and spaces where phones aren’t allowed and my mind cannot\nwander on to other things at work. For example, I find it really great when we\nare on holiday and we spend the day in the pool. This keeps me away from\nmy phone, away from my laptop and away from mindless TV programmes\nthat might be on at the time.\nInstead, I can enjoy watching them learn to dive, to swim, to forward roll in the\nwater and even spend plenty time throwing them across the water or tipping\nthem off their floats.\nTimes like this are what the kids will remember. But I need to make sure this\nisn’t left to a holiday treat. That would be a crying shame. So there are lessons\nand learnings for me to be more present with the kids, and not just there.\nWhat will you see of yourself and your own behaviour\nin this challenge?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/do-something-for-the-kids-this-week-that-they-want-to-do/
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SUMMARY:Have a difficult conversation about money with someone important to you
DESCRIPTION:I don’t know how we’re going to pay\nnext months’ mortgage.\nI found it hardest to talk to others about finances when things were worse than\ntight. When revenues last month were ok but this month I’ve got a customer\nwho’s slow in paying and I don’t know where we sort the months’ bills from.\nEarly on in my time working for myself, following redundancy, it was a real\nchallenge to work week to week and month to month to make sure bills were\npaid. Worth noting at this point I had little to no goals, plans or visions and\nthe purpose of working for myself at this point was to prove a point to myself\nand others (outside of my circle of influence) that I was good enough and\nredundancy wouldn’t stop me.\nSo as I ran head first in to proving this point I was soon to be tripped up with\nimpending bills that couldn’t get paid. I kept this to myself and it was making\nthe guilt and anxiety boil over. I couldn’t admit defeat I felt and talking to my\nwife about it would be a show of weakness that things aren’t ok and I should\ngo back to a proper job after all.\nI know what sense of dread and guilt can feel like and encourage you all to\nrelease the pressure and share your worries and difficulties – however big or\nsmall they might be – and share them with someone important to you.\nI found it incredibly refreshing and like a weight was lifted from my shoulders\nhaving spoken to the wife about it after I got over myself and realise I needed\nto share my concerns. It’s a conversation I’ll have with my kids as they grow\nup and will continue to encourage everyone to have that conversation about\nmoney that they might otherwise be putting off.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/have-a-difficult-conversation-about-money-with-someone-important-to-you/
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SUMMARY:Have a conversation about fatherhood with someone you trust
DESCRIPTION:They don’t teach ‘Dad’ in school,\nbut lessons can be learned from others.\nUnfortunately, I lost my Dad when I was 20. I was 29 when I became a Dad\nso my point of reference or frame for learning was quite limited in terms of\nwhat I could get from within the family. I couldn’t just pick up the phone and\nask what to do when they cry like this, how to support the wife when she has\nher struggles, what to do when you feel on edge when they’re up coughing\nall night.\nNor could I speak openly to my friends and social circles. I mean I probably\ncould, but I didn’t feel I could speak to them about the countless issues that\nwould arise.\nI’d turn to the local health service and wait for support and guidance about\nwhat it meant to be a Dad and what the role of Dad is in a modern setting.\nThey too were quite hopeless, offering supporting only to how the mother\nwould need support, not a mention of Dad.\nThey don’t teach Dad in school. It’s a huge gap and something I retrospectively\ntry to explore and learn as the kids grow.\nFind someone you trust. Speak to them and make agreements and\nexpectations about what is expected of you as a Dad.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/have-a-conversation-about-fatherhood-with-someone-you-trust/
CATEGORIES:Life
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SUMMARY:From the lens of value, what is really important to you in your workplace?
DESCRIPTION:Four generations in one workplace.\nSomething is going to give.\nMuch like the power to choose what good looks like for our professional\nlife, I think we have too the opportunity to challenge what our employers,\nworkplaces and business should stand for.\nAs the next generation of professionals become the new decision makers\nand influencers at work, it’s important to consider what the culture needs to\nbe in your workplace and how you can contribute to it for a better professional\nexperience.\nI really value trust and put a heavy focus on relationships to build a better\nbusiness. I value creativity and harness a culture for ideas and innovation of\nservice. For me this gives us the opportunity as a small business to be curious\nand always question the status quo. As a small business we can be nimble\nagainst larger organisations and make decisions quickly.\nThese ideas and nimbleness can only be embraced effectively when\npartnered with a genuine desire for quality.\nWhat would you say the culture and values are in your workplace? What\nwould a person new to the company see about you when they sat down\nfor the first time or even before they started working with you. What values\nare reflected outside of the business through reviews, word of mouth and\nreputation?\nWhat would you wasn’t to change or improve?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/from-the-lens-of-value-what-is-really-important-to-you-in-your-workplace/
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SUMMARY:What does being a Dad mean from the perspective of the family?
DESCRIPTION:A Dad should do this and this and this and\nthis and this…\nIt can be a minefield I found to actually define what it means to be a Dad.\nHave you ever spoken to those most important to you about what the role of\nDad is for your family unit?\nOur research suggests there is still a perception and stigma around what a\nDad should do, and to be honest it’s quite a comprehensive list that shows\nno wonder why Dads are feeling more guilt, anxiety and overwhelm – we are\nexpected to be Mr. Perfect!\nInstead of aiming for perfect (we cannot ever achieve this), I found it helpful\nto set agreements and expectations with those closest to me – my family –\nabout what a Dad could and should be doing. It can become overwhelming\nto be ourselves if we continue to take such levels of expectations from others.\nWhat do our friends expect?\nTo be available socially once a week.\nWhat do our wider family expect?\nTo call three times a week and make sure they get to where the need to be\nWhat do school parent expect?\nTo be there for drop off and pick up and to be and ‘active parent’\nWhat does society expect?\nTo be the breadwinner, overworked, grafting and exhausted?\nIf we continue to look at all the external voices it’s no wonder we get so\noverwhelmed. So sit down with the closest family unit and have an open\nconversation and set expectations around it.\nSet the goal of this conversation to define what a Good Enough Dad looks like\nfor your family unit. It’s a refreshing perspective and the only one that really\nmatters.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/what-does-being-a-dad-mean-from-the-perspective-of-the-family/
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SUMMARY:Think of inventive ways to increase your annual income by 5%
DESCRIPTION:What could you do?\nWho can help you?\nWhat is stopping you?\nWrite down the answers to these questions and reflect on your notes.\nWait, isn’t this just the dreaded side hustle?\nThere’s a lot of talk about cutting your cloth accordingly and spending within\nyour means. Of course, this is very relevant advice and shouldn’t be ignored,\nbut for me, as I looked to have a better relationship to money and begin\nworking more proactively towards my goals, I didn’t want to constantly be\nlooking backwards and down, but rather forwards and up.\nI built systems and process to help create a sound foundation for our family\nfinances and by checking our budgets each quarter we get in to quite positive\nhabits to ensure we are lean mean family machine.\nBut then there’s that burning desire and ambition for something else – for\nmore.\nI must highlight, I don’t mean more for the sake of more, but for the continued\ndevelopment of me, my goals, skills and desire to provide for my family, to\nchallenge me to be the best I can be and to realise our personal and family\ngoals.\nSo whilst systemising the rear view and cost cutting, I run headlong in to the\nforward view and looking up.\nThis challenge is perhaps one of mindset. There is something called the\nlack mindset or scarcity mindset that really helps manage the budgets and\ncost cutting exercises I mention. But then there’s the growth mindset or the\nmindset of abundance; that there is more than enough to go around and if\nyou put your mind to it you can grow your income.\nYou might want to change the % here but I like to keep things realistic for\nme. 5% revenue growth year on year is an okay target for me. I will often\nconceptualise or mind map new ways to generate that little bit more revenue.\nThis could be products and services from within existing markets and offers\nor it could be a new project, investment or something totally out there.\nI think creativity is key to a healthy mind and a healthy life and allows me to\nstay fresh in all the roles I play. If I find myself looking backwards and down all\nthe time I become stressed, anxious and moody.\nGiving myself permission to look forwards and up is fun, it’s aspirational and\nkeeps me in tune with my purpose and goals.\nGive it a go and have some fun!\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/think-of-inventive-ways-to-increase-your-annual-income-by-5/
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SUMMARY:List all the responsibilities and concerns you have
DESCRIPTION:Think about what I can control,\nnot what I cannot impact.\nOne of my favourite books is the superb Seven Habits Of Highly Effective\nPeople. In it (and you can search YouTube here too), the author, Stephen R.\nCovey talks a lot about the circle of influence and the circle of concern.\nOften I found things consuming my thoughts, worries and decisions based\non things I simply couldn’t control. I found myself operating too much in\nthe circle of concern rather than worrying too much about what I can do to\npositively change, impact or improve upon.\nI can’t control the weather, the interest rates or what the government will\ndecide to do next. They create the frame that I may operate from but then\nwithin this what can I actively impact? Nothing!\nSo check out the video, read the book and make a conscious decision to only\nlet the things you can impact or control impact on you.\nThese might show up closer to home with acquaintances saying what you\nshould do. Rob should do this, he should do that, he should be here or he\nshould be there. The should gremlins as I call them operate often in the circle\nof concern but affect our thoughts and decisions.\nI prefer to operate rather from the circle of control here and ask what I could\ndo. Could rather than should. It put a lot of control and decision at my door\nand not what others say I should be doing.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/list-all-the-responsibilities-and-concerns-you-have/
CATEGORIES:Life
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SUMMARY:Are you in control of your hours at work this week?
DESCRIPTION:Do you have agreements?\nIf I’m not busy, I’m not a success.\nI can’t go home early.\nWe hear it all the time don’t we? At the trade counters, office space, workplace\nor networking events and conferences. What’s that one first question we\nalways ask?\nAre you busy?\nThis is the ultimate question to which we defer. This is our subconscious\nmeasure of how successful that person is. Crazy isn’t it.\nAre you busy?\nSuper busy? I worked 80 hours this week.\nWow! You must be successful.\nLogically it just doesn’t stack up. I’d much rather achieve what I need to\nachieve through a nicely developed action plan which takes me 40 – 50 hours\na week and get more done than Mr busy every week of the month.\nThis is why we encourage busy Dads to track time, to create boundaries and\nmanage expectations, because it can be easy to fall in to the competitive\nrace of simply measuring ourselves on how busy we are at work.\nI’m not suggesting here that sometimes season and work pressures mean we\nwill have to pull the longer hours, but we should be able to see this coming\ndown the line and manage expectations across other roles we play.\nIf someone else controls our hours and our diaries we are setting ourselves up\nfor a fall. We’ve heard it mentioned before where busy people have meetings\nput in their diaries by their line management at 7am for example, knowing full\nwell this affects things at home.\nThe competitive and toxic culture for doing more, more, more has to stop and\nI think the checks and balances on that start closer to home.\nMaybe next time instead of asking if someone is busy,\ntry “are you happy?”…\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/are-you-in-control-of-your-hours-at-work-this-week/
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SUMMARY:Explore gender roles and how it might show up
DESCRIPTION:What makes a man and Dad in the modern world?\nOur research suggests that there still exists in the workplace a strong\nstereotype and expectation about what a man is. This contradicts somewhat\nwith the wider narrative at times so for me it can create conflict in how we\nshow up ourselves but for the purpose of this exercise, how we want our kids\nto show up as they grow up to be future men, women, gender fluid and so on.\nWhat expectations are we putting on to our kids as they grow up? The amount\nof times it’s been said for example in our house that Daddy is going to work\nor the school run that is still 80% full of Mums doing the school drops and\npick ups.\nDo these expectations match what society will create for them too?\nIt’s a really complex issue isn’t it and one that I think goes unchecked at home\nbecause of that complexity.\nSo try and consider what this makes you feel like. What stereotypes do you\nplay up to? What biases do you want to breakdown? How do you want the\nkids to embrace gender when they grow up?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/explore-gender-roles-and-how-it-might-show-up/
CATEGORIES:Family
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SUMMARY:If you were given £100,000 tomorrow, what would you do with it?
DESCRIPTION:Would you have a plan?\nWrite down your plan.\n70% of lottery winners go broke.\nWhy is that?!\nIt’s interesting isn’t it that when the majority of lottery winners get their fortune,\nthey find themselves skint again or worse, bankrupt within a few years. I often\nfind this a curious thing but I guess with no relationship to money or define\ngoals or vision of what to they want to progress in to, perhaps the easiest\nthing to do is to spend your way back to the life you had before? I’m not sure\nof the science behind it, but for me it cries out about the need for creating\n‘buckets’ to allocate cash to.\nThe obvious answers to this questions always crop up\nI’d pay off the mortgage\nI’ll go on a world cruise!\nI’ll buy a sports car\nI’d take all the family and friends out!\nAnd yes, sure, treat yourself – but then what?\nDo you have a structure in place?\nFor me, I find it important to set up rules for our finances so let’s say the\n£100,000 comes in, I know that I have a contribution to my main account but\nthen fixed %’s in to savings and investments, bonus pots, holidays and family\nspends.\nHaving this structure in place gives me the confidence to build top line\nrevenue and I know that underneath this there is a plan to catch the money\nand grow specific pots that align with our goals.\nSo rather than a whole wedge sitting there in our main account with the\ntemptation to spend, spend ,spend, I know there’s a nice structure to nurture\nand build longer lasting security for me and the family.\nIt may sound more boring, but structure and a plan,\nI believe, will help create more sustained\nfinancial happiness.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/if-you-were-given-100000-tomorrow-what-would-you-do-with-it/
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SUMMARY:Clarify your core values that are relevant to this chapter of your life
DESCRIPTION:What do I want to impart on my kids?\nWhat would people say about me when I’m not in the room?\nI think it might have been Amazon’s Jeff Bezos who said your reputation is\nonly as good as people would say about you when you’re not in the room.\nQuite a striking reference isn’t it?\nSo…what did I want people to say about me when I wasn’t there?\nI think caring, a leader, a giver, thoughtful and with an appetite for getting stuff\ndone that will help others.\nI like to live with the approach of win-win , meaning my customers, clients,\nfamily, friends, all benefit from the work, support I give and by the way I\nconduct myself.\nBut when did you last take a look at your values and check in to see if the life\nyou’re building is really connecting and aligning with the life you want and the\nvalues you want to live by, and be known for?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/clarify-your-core-values-that-are-relevant-to-this-chapter-of-your-life/
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SUMMARY:Who are the 5 most important people in your professional life?
DESCRIPTION:Identify them.\nYou can’t succeed in business by yourself –\nso who is helping you?\nAnd who are you helping?\nYou are the average of the 5 people you spend most time with. This was one\nof the most striking lines I connected with when I first started working for\nmyself.\nWho is in your professional circle that lifts you up? How are you raising the\naverage of the group and what are you learning from them?\nThese points are critical in my thinking and my approach to all I do\nprofessionally. Almost all my projects are collaborations. It can be a lonely\nplace working for yourself so I surround myself with people who can lift me\nup and we become a force greater than the sum of our parts.\nYou can’t succeed in business by yourself.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/who-are-the-5-most-important-people-in-your-professional-life/
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SUMMARY:Agree with those who matter when work finishes this week
DESCRIPTION:Do not take work home at least 3 times a week.\nWhat do you mean you’re struggling\nat home, can’t you see I’m busy at work?\nBoundaries matter, but what boundaries do you have? And with whose\nagreement did you set them?\nOne realisation I had soon in to my self employment is that the family isn’t\nthere to enable me to go to work. If I don’t want to play up to stereotype and\nstigma, I also shouldn’t be seen as the sole breadwinner. My ambition and\ndrive might direct me to be the primary income generator but that doesn’t\nmean that role is superior to others in the household.\nToo often in the early days of working for myself I would expect everything to\nbe done at home because I’m busy. But I wasn’t effectively communicating\nthis nor particularly clear in why I was out late again and what it was achieving.\nI was missing bed times and meal times but was head down in attempting to\nbecome the breadwinner.\nIt was the realisation that during a particular week I hadn’t been home in time\nfor bed more than once, and I wasn’t busy doing anything too productive.\nI wanted to changed this and found it helpful to strike a balance through\nconversation with those at home about what good might look like in the next\nweek.\nWhen should work finish?\nCan I get to the school run three times this week?\nWhat work priorities do I have and do people at home know what and when\nI will be doing?\nStriking balance through agreement and expectation I found really beneficial\nhere. You can’t succeed in business by yourself. Nor can you succeed at\nhome or absolve yourself of responsibilities here either.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/agree-with-those-who-matter-when-work-finishes-this-week/
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SUMMARY:Create a new household budget that you can stick to
DESCRIPTION:(Where possible, involve your partner. Otherwise, share this with a close friend or relative)\nSo you mean I can treat myself now?!\nAs I mentioned before, I took time to snapshot where we are at with our family\nfinances in terms of what is needed to stand still today. But what does the\nbudget look like to support it?\nAnd perhaps more importantly, can you – and others in the household – stick\nto it?\nA collective budget with those in the household or one you can share with\nsomeone close to you Is important. I ran my first budget based on the\nhousehold requirements but didn’t share it with anyone, and when things got\ntighter a couple of weeks before payday was due, I was frustrated with my\nwife because she had overspent on something I hadn’t budgeted for – but\nhow was she supposed to know?!\nI found creating a budget quite energising and motivating to do. Rather than\nhide from budgets or do a kind of budget, we sat down together and looked\nat what we have vs what was needed and looked at way to plug any gaps,\nraise our ambition and look at our relationship to money and what is either\nenables us to do or stopped us doing in the first place.\nI review our budgets every quarter as I’m aware that seasonal pressures mean\nthat in some periods we need to adapt budgets. I know when car leases are\ndue, insurances are renewed and feel much more in control, without the\nbudget becoming controlling.\nIt’s a very liberating exercise to do –\nI even got to treat myself – how about that!\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/create-a-new-household-budget-that-you-can-stick-to/
CATEGORIES:Money
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SUMMARY:Reflect upon your own coping mechanisms and see how healthy they are in the short and long term
DESCRIPTION:It’s only a couple of beers a night, it’s my reward for a hard days’ work.\nWhen I found myself having a busy day and struggling to spin all the plates\nthat needed spinning I couldn’t wait to just get home, get to the fridge, grab\na beer and stick some rubbish food in the oven. It relaxed me. But this was\nsimply a coping mechanism that allowed me to switch off from the stresses I\nwas facing; I hadn’t taken any time to check in with my mental health and see\nwhich techniques might actually help.\nCoping mechanisms can become real crutches for us and often they can be\nmade up of really unhealthy habits – alcohol, porn, gambling, poor diets.\nI wanted to challenge myself and make sure I wasn’t picking up a bad habit\nof drinking every night as my reward. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a beer in a\nsociable setting and do like to come back of an evening and enjoy a beer or a\nwine with the Mrs or with my dinner after the kids are in bed. But I wanted to\nknow I was doing it from enjoyment and not from a reliance, dependence or\ncoping mechanism for something more deep rooted.\nSo I challenged myself to go alcohol free just for a week or so, just to ensure\nit wasn’t something more sinister than enjoyment. It’s easy isn’t it to slip in to\nbad habits that then prevent us going to the gym, for being present with the\nkids or that make us more connected to our loved ones.\nI added some more healthy coping mechanisms too; walking, transitions,\ngym and football were all included in my ‘blow off steam’ list.\nI might still have a beer in an evening now, but I’m happy to know it’s still in\nmy control and it is solely for the purpose of enjoyment and nothing more.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/reflect-upon-your-own-coping-mechanisms-and-see-how-healthy-they-are-in-the-short-and-long-term/
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SUMMARY:What are you putting off at work?
DESCRIPTION:Deal with it this week.\nI’ll do it next week…\nI read somewhere that procrastination isn’t born out of laziness, rather it\nstems from a sense of anxiety associated to the task you’re putting off. This\nwas a real eye opener for me as I see procrastination, the act of putting things\noff, perceived as lazy or the avoidance of things less exciting.\nBut if it comes from a place of anxiety isn’t this a wholly different perspective?\nWhat am I anxious about when I put off something at work?\nMy skill set?\nWhat the other person will say?\nWhat is it goes wrong?\nI’ll just email them instead.\nMy profile as a person suggests I dislike conflict and will shy away from it. So\nanything that could create a risk of exposing this is something I naturally shy\naway from.\nBut just because I shy away from it doesn’t mean the requirement for the task\nto be done goes away. So instead it plays on my mind all day, and then I might\ntake the stress home with me because I know I didn’t do it. I’ll do it tomorrow\nI tell myself. Before the cycle starts again.\nEat that frog! So what to do about it? Well, one thing I practice is the eat that\nfrog approach. It’s a tactic (and a book by the same name) that suggests we\nidentify what our tasks are, decide which is the ugly frog (the one we hate\ndoing the most!) and we get it done first. Not second, not after lunch, not after\nthe meeting or the planning session which you love doing…get it done first.\nI tell you what I found? Once you get in to this habit I find the rest of the day\ngoes so much better and I have a little more bounce in my step because\nthe day ahead looks so much better now. And I also don’t take this baggage\nhome with me.\nHappier at home, happier at work. Win win.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/what-are-you-putting-off-at-work/
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SUMMARY:Set 1 hour each day this week for a family/loved one with no distractions
DESCRIPTION:I’ll be back in a minute,\nI just need to check my emails.\nNo distractions means no distractions. And it’s incredibly tough. We live in the\nworld of 24 hour news, TV, entertainment and noise. All of this, on top of our\nwork life is bound to create more distraction.\nOur research suggests a majority of working Dads feel distracted when\nworking from home, and even when they are working at work (usually guilt\nknowing that something should have been done at home).\nThe amount of times I’ve tried this challenge and either failed miserably\nwithin the first 20 minutes with the dreaded peek at my phone, or thoughts\nof who might have messaged me, called me or emailed me begin to creep\nin to my head.\nBut the benefits to the family and the kids is huge. They see their Dad present\nand actively engaged in the here and now, someone who wants to be there\nand doesn’t feel the urge to have it compete with devices.\nIt’s one I need to practice more but when done successfully it really does\nbenefit the whole household. And guess what? When it’s planned in I have\nmissed zero important calls, emails or messages.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/set-1-hour-each-day-this-week-for-a-family-loved-one-with-no-distractions/
CATEGORIES:Family
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SUMMARY:What scares you about money?
DESCRIPTION:Note down what to mind and reflect back on your thoughts.\nHow do you feel?\nWhat can you change?\nNot enough money for the month?\nIt scared the life out me.\nI used to think that money didn’t play a big part on my mind as I was in a steady\njob that pretty much covered the monthly need and that was all that was\nneeded. But I didn’t see redundancy from my final employer coming round\nthe corner and to say that was something of a gut punch is an understatement.\nPulling the rug from under my feet which I thought was holding the (growing)\nfamily steady really rocked me as suddenly I realised we were cut adrift and\nwhat the heck was I supposed to do next month?!\nNot having enough money to cover our monthly fixed costs used to terrify\nme greatly to the point of having sleepless nights. So my immediate goal\nto overcome this was to refer back to things like household budgets, goals,\nvisions and plans and what I needed to get to in the first instance.\nI wanted to build out a process that forced me to structure revenues in a way\nthat portioned money off to savings, profits and investments every month and\nset my own goals such as get one month ahead, get three month ahead, six\nmonths ahead and so on.\nFor me this helps me stay in control and on the path to better business\ndevelopment and a better handle on my relationship to money. Why?\nBecause I recognised what scared me and made a plan to change it.\nSo…what scares you?\nAnd what can you do to change it?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/what-scares-you-about-money/
CATEGORIES:Money
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SUMMARY:Reflect upon your own mental health and learn about the techniques that can help you
DESCRIPTION:Isn’t this all just fluffy ‘mindfulness’ nonsense anyway?\nSo how are you feeling today? Are you ok? But really, are you ok?\nHow many times does somebody ask us if we’re ok simply out of politeness\nknowing full well the answer will be fine or all good, even though perhaps\nthere is something not quite right?\nI see this exercise as my own personal check in that probes one more time\nand ask – but really, is everything ok?\nI almost hear myself answer back “well I’m glad you’ve asked!”\nI don’t know about you but I have a real tendency to simply shrug off things\nthat might challenge or upset me by sweeping things under the carpet or\nreferring back to the dreaded man up phrase. I would continue to silently\nabsorb more pressure, more work, more bills, more stress at home and I\nwould rarely check in with myself to see if the load was getting too much.\nI was close to burnout and it wasn’t until I checked in with myself that I could\nsee this coming down the track and now I was aware of it, it was on me to do\nsomething about it.\nI decided to learn about mental health awareness so I could look after myself\nand others in a more empathic way. It can be easy to just charge on regardless\nbut we must take time to ask of ourselves – are you ok, really?\nI found the introduction of transitions would really help when shifting between\nroles and responsibilities. A simple yet deliberate step where I’d take a longer\nwalk home, or a walk from my home office round the block before entering\nback in to ‘being Dad’.\nI’m really keen to not take work to home or home to work in a way that is\ncontrolled by the tasks and not decided by me. Transitions are a simple\naddition to my routine that help me shift focus, park my stresses and\ncontribute to bringing the best of me to home or work.\nBut what can you discover to help you check in?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/reflect-upon-your-own-mental-health-and-learn-about-the-techniques-that-can-help-you/
CATEGORIES:Life
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SUMMARY:What skills gap do you have at work?
DESCRIPTION:What is your next little improvement?\nContinuous improvement has to be the order of the day doesn’t it? As the\nfamous saying goes, what got you here, won’t get you there. There is bound\nto be a skills gap in your work that you know if you had this ability then it might\nput you in line for the next promotion or enable the business to develop in a\nbetter way.\nI love having my eyes open to development opportunities that challenge\nme but that I know deep down will benefit me greatly. One example here\nwould be the skill of public speaking. I’m the type of man who will tend to\nshy away from the spotlight, focus more on putting others first and ensuring\ncustomers get the best experience. In my event promoting days for example\nI was always the organiser in the background, never the frontman on stage.\nAs I moved in to self employment though I knew deep down that I had to\ncome out from my comfort zone somewhat and be more confident speaking\nto groups, in crowds and share with confidence my passion for helping others.\nI attended sessions to support this requirement at a public speaking training\nprogramme and believe me when I tell you, I was a complete nervous wreck!\nI can look back now and clearly see the development that I have gained. I\nam more confident in groups, can speak with clarity and passion during the\ntraining sessions we run and pass on that confidence to learners to ensure\nthey actually learn from what I’m sharing.\nWithout this skill it would be very hard to build a business I am building so I’d\nencourage you all to take a look at your skill set today and ask yourself what’s\nholding you back? What is missing?\nI’m sure there are things you know that would help – even if they make you\nfeel uncomfortable and a nervous wreck like I was!\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/what-skills-gap-do-you-have-at-work/
CATEGORIES:Work
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SUMMARY:Agree to a no-device time
DESCRIPTION:But what if someone emails me?\nI’ll be there in a minute!\nOne of the things that really frustrates me at our household is the time in the\nevening when the kids are finally in bed, we sit down for our evening meal\nwith the TV on and on each side of the table or sofa arm is the dreaded blue\nlight of the mobile phone.\nThe constant interruption and distraction of social alerts, WhatsApp\nmessages, pointless notifications constantly interrupting what should be\nquality time with my wife. And guess what? We cut off our conversations, put\nthe cutlery down, stop watching the film and direct our gaze immediately at\nthe handset on the side. It’s so annoying!\nI get it, we live in a 24 hour world where anything can happen at any time of\nthe day. But what is that doing for our time at home? When is this time ring\nfenced and no matter what happens, it’s our time?\nThe case for the defence here is that my Mrs tends to be the one who sorts\nthe kids school pick ups and entertaining them in the period after school and\nmy getting home so there is the argument that this is the only time she can\nbe active to ‘catch up’ on messages.\nI’ve often suggested half jokingly that it’d be easier for me to message my\nwife rather than sit next to her at home!\nSomething I want to work on in this regard is no device time. I’m bad for it\ntoo, checking my emails at 8pm onwards or not being truly focussed on the\nimportance of that time at home.\nRemoving devices from the room, locking them in a box, putting them on\ncharge upstairs would be a really helpful thing to do and something I think we\ncan implement quite quickly.\nBut what does this look like for you?\nAre devices a bit of a crutch for you and the ones at home?\nDo they create unnecessary distraction and interruption?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/agree-to-a-no-device-time/
CATEGORIES:Family
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SUMMARY:How do you feel about money?
DESCRIPTION:It’s not something I need to do, it’s what I want to do…\nVery much like that task of challenging your relationship with money, it’s\nimportant to understand what you feel about money in the first place?\nIf you don’t like it or don’t feel that it’s integral to your day to day life, this is a\nvery different mindset to those who think it makes the world go round and\nstrive to get more and more of it at any cost.\nFor me, money isn’t the goal in itself. Security is the goal. And I know that\nsecurity comes at a cost so my feelings towards money are that is can very\nmuch contribute to that security, a means to an end as it were and not the\nend in itself.\nYour feelings and the feelings of those in your household of course will vary\nto mine (that’s the purpose of this journal, right!) so make sure you have a\nholistic view on the feelings in your household to money.\nReflect back on them and think if the way you feel about money is healthy\nand conducive to achieving your overall aims in a professional and personal\nsetting.\nIf not, what would you like them to be and who can help you adjust\nyour feelings towards all things finance.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/how-do-you-feel-about-money/
CATEGORIES:Money
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SUMMARY:Take a sheet of paper and do 15 minutes ‘wild writing’
DESCRIPTION:I never knew I had so much on my mind.\nSimilar in outcome as the 10 minutes of silence challenge but different in\ndirection, the wild writing challenge a really great way of getting things that\nmight be rooted deep in your mind really out in the open and exposed.\nThere’s a real strength here in actually writing down what you think and feel,\nand avoid if possible the keyboard or dictation. Why? Well I found a real\nconnection to the paper, the pen and me that I wouldn’t get from tapping\naway on a computer.\nLike being much more likely of success when we write down our goals, we are\nso much more likely to get out of our sub conscious the things that concern\nus or the opportunities we are sitting on by writing things down.\nIt doesn’t need to be grammatically true, perfectly formed paragraphs of\nShakespearean prose, but it does need to come out.\nBut where to start?!\nIt’s different for everyone of course, but I helpful to start with things like…\nToday I did…\nIt’s bothering me when…\nI’ve got so much on my mind that…\nFor me, these prompts begin to open that gates that will open the\nfloodgates so I encourage you to begin. Just start – I never knew\nhow much I had on my mind!\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/take-a-sheet-of-paper-and-do-15-minutes-wild-writing/
CATEGORIES:Life
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SUMMARY:Often, busy Dads bring their work home
DESCRIPTION:How can you avoid doing this for the next month?\nSetting expectations and getting stuff done.\nI’ll start again here by saying that I fully understand that sometimes work\ndemands a little more from us and this will encroach on to otherwise family\ntime. In a joined up world of time zones and globalisation it becomes harder\nto define work hours a a steady and consistent 9 to 5. In fact, the younger\ngenerations don’t want to be restrained by such timeframes. But that\nshouldn’t deflect from the point in hand here that whatever times or rules\nyou set yourself for finishing work, don’t take work home with you this month!\nI find it helpful to sit down at the beginning of a week (maybe sometimes on a\nSunday evening) and plot out my week ahead. This includes having the diary\nopen to make sure the meetings I have are locked in the diary. It includes\nthings I need to do at home – football practice, gym time etc and it includes\nthe more admin tasks I need to do; the day to day running of the business.\nI also write down for the projects I work on what individual things need to\nhappen that week for me to sit down on Friday afternoon and thing its been\na productive week. From my list and the time allowed in my diary I apply\nsomething called the Eisenhower Matrix to the tasks I’ve written down.\nYou may be familiar with the tool it’s very popular in management. You should\nhave a look online for more about it but I find this is a super way of prioritising\nwork, making sure my time is focussed on the important tasks at hand and\nwhich tasks I might choose to outsource or get rid of all together.\nEach morning I will do a to do list for that day and once that’s complete,\nbarring any emergencies that crop up, I know with a clear conscious that I\ncan leave work at work and focus on the roles I have to play at home.\nI’m not perfect here and that isn’t my aim. I want to be in better control and\nhave better decision making about where I spend my time. I don’t want work\nto regularly encroach on my home time and self, regardless how much I\nenjoy doing what I do.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/often-busy-dads-bring-their-work-home/
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SUMMARY:Practice transitions/ mindfulness before you finish work each day
DESCRIPTION:To aim to bring the best of you back to the home environment.\nI found myself bringing home to work and work to home.\nTransitions are a key part of helping me manage myself better and allowing\nme to shift focus and energy between professional me and Dad me. But what\nare transitions?\nAccording to a dictionary definition; the process or a period of changing from\none state or condition to another.\nAs a concept, it sounds pretty straight forward but in practice, when I look\nat myself, I could see a time where I was hopping between multiple roles\nand not taking the time to consider how I needed to show up. This became\nparticularly apparent during Summer 2020 when we were in lockdown and\nwork was home and home was work. There was zero space to shift my focus\nand from the back of that time I learned that if working from home was to\nbe a lasting element of life moving forwards, I had to create a boundary\nsomewhere at home where work could be work and home could be home.\nI managed to convert part of my garage at the time in to a home office and\nthat simple 3 feet commute to work gave me the break I needed in physical\nspace to allow me to focus better on where I needed to be.\nI appreciate some people may not have the space to physically distance\nthemselves like this but I also practice transitions in the form of a walk around\nthe block, walking to the shops, jumping off the bus a stop earlier or taking\nthat time to grab my coffee before I get to the office.\nLike many things in this book, I am not perfect. But I am practicing. And for me\nthis is all I can expect if I want to be good enough. Transitions are also a great\ntime to keep up a level of fitness (step count!) and focus on some me time\n(listening music, podcasts, books).\nI tend to ask myself,\nHow do I need to show up at this next setting?\nWhat do people expect of me?\nWhat do I need to do?\nHave I resolved everything needed to allow me to be\nthe best I can be in this next setting?\nA powerful tool I think will help greatly.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/practice-transitions-mindfulness-before-you-finish-work-each-day/
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SUMMARY:What’s your relationship to money?
DESCRIPTION:Make some notes and write about what your relationship is with money and if you think it is healthy or not.\nHow can it be improved?\nDoes money drive you?\nOr do you drive money?\nDo you work hard for money or\ndoes money work hard for you?\nThere are some incredible books that help support the topic of money and\nyour personal relationship to it. I think some of my favourites in this areas\nwould be Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and The Rules Of Wealth by\nRichard Templar. In the latter, the author asks us to define our money beliefs.\nStatements that challenged me would include:\n“Money is the root of all evil”\n“No good can come from money”\n“I don’t deserve to be well off”\n“Money isn’t for people like me”\n“Happiness and Money make poor bedfellows”\nAnd then there’s the other side to these positions from people such as Grant\nCardone who will simply believe that somebody has his money and it’s his job\nto go and find it (Check out the excellent Secret Billionaire series).\nWhichever side of the coin you sit with these beliefs, I guess you’re right?\nI’m not where I want to be in terms of how much money I have, but I have set\nmy goals and my structures in a way that creates much more stability as I now\nplan out my next steps.\nMy relationship to money is a much more positive one than it may have been\na few years back. In his excellent book Rich Dad Poor Dad he challenges all\nreaders to have money work for them. It made me curious to dive deeper and\nultimately as people in work or who provide services for others often trade\ntheir time for money, and it we sacrifice all of our time for money, then what is\nthat saying about our relationship to it?\nWho is really in control?\nMoney is okay. It’s a good thing!\nWanting money is okay.\nAmbition is a good thing!\nWanting to be rich is okay.\nBut what is your relationship to money?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/whats-your-relationship-to-money/
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SUMMARY:Do something nice for a person this weekend without expecting anything in return
DESCRIPTION:Honey, I’m coming to take you to lunch!\nI think in a similar way we forget to do things for ourselves when we become\nbusy Dads we can also forget to do things for the grown ups in our lives who\nare among the most important. They too have pressures, roles, responsibilities\nthat might be going unchecked and might be in need of a little surprise treat.\nI think as a we get busy and we focus on work, kids, money it is easy to neglect\nsome of the important relationships that made us who we are.\nI’d wake up sometimes with the intention of doing something but then for\nsome reason find an excuse not to do it; I don’t have time today, I can’t afford\nit, it’ll distract from work, it’ll be rushed.\nBut I tell you what, by committing to it and actually doing it, I felt ten times\nbetter having done it than the reasons not to could ever do. And the person\non the receiving end (my wife), was delighted, happy and smiling for she now\nhad that time to pause and connect with another grown up.\nI must say I don’t think this needs to be an expensive outing. Often the little\nthings are the most important, so please don’t spend money you might not\nhave. I think the most important thing here is to interrupt patterns that may be\ncreating the mundane aspects of our life.\nYes, habits are important but every now and then\nisn’t it nice to break them?!\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/do-something-nice-for-a-person-this-weekend-without-expecting-anything-in-return/
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SUMMARY:When at work, how much of your decisions are based on the impact at home?
DESCRIPTION:Oh this is awkward, how is this going to play out at home?\nSometimes I can have a nice ideas for business development that I\nimmediately then know will burden me with more work and quite possibly\nmore time away from home. When we agree to work across the country for\nexample to build relationships with larger clients,. I know that each trip away\nwill be adding an extra night or two away from home, which then impacts\ndirectly on the people at home who will need to take on more work as an\nimpact of my projects at work.\nThere’s not many worse feelings than the guilt of success. The euphoria of\na big win, a result or important development at work can be immediately\ndoused in guilt for the reasons outlined above.\nFor me, this created all the more reason to try and build agreements and\nexpectation around my work and ensure we are all on the same hymn sheet in\nterms of why this work needs to happen, ie, it is contributing to the household\nsecurity and the ambition and continued development of the business.\nIf you find yourself avoiding opportunities at work because of their potential\nstrain or impact at home then perhaps you might benefit from checking\nin at home to ensure you’re all aligned with the purpose, ambition and\nexpectations.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/when-at-work-how-much-of-your-decisions-are-based-on-the-impact-at-home/
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SUMMARY:Have a wind-down routine before you finish work
DESCRIPTION:Make notes about what it is you do and how you think it can help you and your family/friendship circle.\nTransitions are key for me to maintain\nboundaries.\nIf we never ‘finish’ work can we ever truly switch off? It’s harder than ever to\ncreate boundaries between our roles and when our research suggests that\nthere is a pressure to be forever ‘on’, it’s easy to see why overwhelm and\nanxiety is so much on the rise.\nI work for myself and run my own small businesses so with that comes\npressures that are different (though certainly not more important) to those in\nmanagement, employment and who have a job.\nI also enjoy my work, so switching off for the day is hard for me. My best\nideas can pop up in an evening and I need some way of capturing ideas,\ncommunications and so forth.\nI think this comes down to personal responsibility and the awareness of\nboundaries between both home and work life. How do you know you’re\nwinding down from a busy day at work? For me, I tend to avoid meetings past\n4pm. I ensure all emails are followed up with and messages sent. Perhaps\nmore importantly, I create a to do list each and every day so I can try to avoid\nthe ‘I should have made that phone call’ guilt pang late on in the evening.\nI clear my desk, plan my route and journey home and pick a good podcast,\nbook or album to listen to on the way home.\nIf we don’t create boundaries how can anything ever be complete? When is\nenough enough? I know first hand that it’s always possible to do more. But\nhow is this helping us to manage our home roles and our sense of self if all we\ndo is give up our time to work?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/have-a-wind-down-routine-before-you-finish-work/
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SUMMARY:What is it that you want?
DESCRIPTION:What is it that you want?\nWhat does money enable you to do?\nWhen I grow up I want to be a millionaire!\nI remember when I was much younger, 10 or so, when the grown up life\nslowly starts coming in to view and you start having conversations about what\nyou want to be or do when you grow up that is a little more meaningful or\nrealistic (though obviously not impossible!) than ‘space man’ or ‘professional\nfootballer’ or our ambition of ‘becoming a millionaire!’.\nI don’t know about you but when I had kids my motivation, my desire and\nmy drive shifted. It was all for them. I know to provide for them I wanted to\ndo something that also challenged me and allowed me to realise my own\nambition but there have been times when that point, the realise my own\nambition piece really hits me in the face.\nWhat is it that I actually want?!\nAnd how much money do I need to achieve it?\nBy defining what I actually want to achieve in terms of business or professional\nsuccess, lifestyle, homelife and hobbies, I can better set targets financially to\nhelp achieve them that adds a little more gravity to the purpose of money.\nThe pursuit of money for money’s sake has never interested me but likewise\nI want to be financially secure and comfortable.\nBut the purpose that sits above money is what drives me. I speak to my family,\nmy business partners and friends and identify goals around each. What is it\nthat I want? And how much money is it going to take to get there?\nThis question helped me change my relationship\nto money and I hope it helps you too.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/what-is-it-that-you-want/
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SUMMARY:Find at least 10 minutes each day this week to sit/walk in silence
DESCRIPTION:This is the sound, of silence.\nIsn’t silence wonderful.\nNo noise, no distraction, no music, no traffic, no kids, no alerts or notifications.\nNothing.\nHard, isn’t it, to really find that space to switch off.\nAnd the thought of doing this each day for a week?\nUnheard of.\nI’m too busy!\nThere’s a real power in having time with yourself but one of the hardest things\nto do is to make it happen. I’d try this and the kids would come in within the\nfirst minute, noise from downstairs meant I felt guilt for being on my own, the\ntemptation to check the phone for emails.\nSome of my best ideas come when I’m sat on my own away from distraction.\nI also find myself more relaxed and able to cope with stresses and roles I\nneed to play.\nSo give it a spin, I think it can really help you.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/find-at-least-10-minutes-each-day-this-week-to-sit-walk-in-silence/
CATEGORIES:Life
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SUMMARY:What does good look like for your work and professional life?
DESCRIPTION:When is he going to get a proper job?\nThere is a tremendous opportunity for each and every one of us to create a\nprofessional life that absolutely aligns with our home life and core values. I\nreally believe this as fact.\nI don’t think it’s fair to assume that everyone must follow a set path to\nprofessional ‘success’ and each of us should be able to choose the way in\nwhich we apply ourselves and achieve our professional aims.\nNot everyone wants to be a leader or create a business that employs\nhundreds of people. Some people want to create a lifestyle business that\nprovides time and freedom to choose for the business owner. Some are\ndriven by the motivation of money whereas other need security and a clear\npension plan with some progression.\nWhen I was made redundant for the second time and I made the decision\nto try working for myself, my vision of what that looked like wasn’t the most\nclear, but what I knew was by working for myself the opportunity would be\nthere to not be at risk of redundancy, I’d be able to apply my creativity more\nand be more in control of looking after my family. Of course this isn’t easy but I\nthrive on challenge and always said that if this didn’t work out I would happily\ngo and get a proper job.\nI’d have appreciated a little more support from certain circles but this is why I\nwant to emphasise that anything that you define as good for your professional\nlife then you can make it work. This isn’t to say just by happy clapping and\nthinking it so, but through clear decision and deliberate steps moving forwards\nyou can achieve a what your definition of good and success looks like.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/what-does-good-look-like-for-your-work-and-professional-life/
CATEGORIES:Work
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SUMMARY:Five love languages
DESCRIPTION:Do the questionnaire and have an open conversation with your partner about it.\nHow does it make you feel or view yourself and your partner after the conversation?\nI didn’t understand why the things I were doing just weren’t working.\nThe 5 Love Languages test is a real eye opener. It shares with you not only\nhow you like the receive and engage with love (not just the bedroom stuff!)\nbut also how your partner likes to receive and engage too.\nAn example. It frustrates me sometimes when it feels like the household\nchores are left more in my balance to sort; the dishwashing, the clothes\nwashing, cleaning the house. So for me, a meaningful sign of love in this\ncase would be the better contribution to chores like this without prompt or\nargument to get them done.\nThis would fall in to the Acts Of Service language but there are others;\nQuality Time\nPhysical Touch\nWords of Affirmation\nReceiving Gifts\nAnd it’s perfectly expected that your partner may have a different language. It\nmakes sense doesn’t it that we might like to receive love in different ways to\nour own, but how often do we explore what makes the other tick, especially\nwhen so much attention is on the kids and the professional side of our lives?\nIt took me some getting in to this exercise but I really see the benefit and\nit helps have much better conversations at home. Give is search online,\nthe test is free and there is a book to accompany this for those wanting to\nget greater detail.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/five-love-languages/
CATEGORIES:Family
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SUMMARY:How much do the kids cost?
DESCRIPTION:Swimming\nand football\nand clothes\nand food\nand sport\nand games\nand tech\nand shoes and…\nI have three kids and I’ll be honest, I find there is zero economies of scale\nwith kids! Here’s me thinking as the family grows, it’ll get cheaper! At time\nof writing, all my kids and under 9 years of age, but already they’ve gone\nthrough different phases; new born to baby to toddler to boy…\nEach phase comes with its’ own pressures and requirements and with those\nrequirements comes a new range of costs. As part of my household budgeting\nI sit down periodically and reassess where we are with what the kids cost.\nWhen was the last time you looked at this?\nWhat period of life are your kids at and how has this changed in terms of\nfinancing and budgeting?\nIt’s important to me to keep a check on this as costs can quickly spiral. That\ngame or those clothes can add up and I think if you allow it to run away from\nyou it can soon enough creep back up on you when you least suspect it.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/how-much-do-the-kids-cost/
CATEGORIES:Money
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SUMMARY:Set yourself a fitness goal
DESCRIPTION:I used to love going to the gym.\nSaid the overweight me to the mirror one day.\nMissing elements of your fitness routine for a day or two is going to happen\n– we aren’t perfect and (most probably) we aren’t professional athletes, so in\nmy instance I want to:\na) Be happy with how I look\nb) Be able to run about with the kids\nc) Look as good as I can to my wife\nd) Do a bit to protect against issues down the line\nThese four larger goals help me now build a plan of action to achieve them.\nWhat could it take to achieve the goals A-D listed above?\nAnd how do these goals hold me accountable?\nWell, for me, I try to do 10,000 steps a day, get to the gym twice a week and\nplay football once a week – I feel this would be a decent level of fitness to\nhelp me achieve my goals.\nAnd if I wake up and can’t be bothered one winters’ morning? Not the end\nof the world. But if I wake up two, three, four days a week not feeling the\nmotivation? Well, I can quickly refer back to my four main goals and ask\nmyself what doing nothing today will do to contribute achieving them.\nI like to hold myself accountable and I use fitness apps or any of the\nsmart watches out there to track my steps and keep me responsible and\naccountable.\nAt the time of writing my average step count in a month hasn’t\ndropped below 10,000 steps in over 9 months so I’m currently\nquite satisfied with my level of activity.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/set-yourself-a-fitness-goal/
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SUMMARY:Think of 3 ways your work can be better
DESCRIPTION:Write a proposal about it.\nI wish they’d do this, it’d make things a\nwhole lot better!\nI don’t know about you but when I was in employment I used to love coming\nup with ideas about how to make things better, more productive, better\nselling and all around better for customers. Coming up with ideas for things\nhas never really been a weakness of mine and I used to enjoy writing down\nmy ideas to share with colleagues and my bosses.\nOne of my bug bears in the workplace though is moaning. Don’t get me\nwrong, I’ve been guilty of it myself, moaning about how something could\nbe better, how we would be much better off if only we did this or how if the\ncompany just changed this one thing, the world will be a better place!\nI get it, we enjoy having a good moan every now and then, but from that\nmoaning what ever comes from it? It’s here that I think this challenge picks\nup the baton. Think about your workplace or your business. How can things\nimprove? How can you do things better? How can you positively impact\nthings in the workplace? What are you observing in the marketplace that\ncreates opportunities to improve?\nIf you struggle for motivation or a starting point, try beginning your text with\nthe following;\nWhat would happen if…\nImagine if we could…\nIt’s really frustrating at work when…\nThese should help you connect with your ideas\ngenerator and come up with some really positive and\nimpactful changes that could improve the workplace\nfor you, the team, and the customer.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/think-of-3-ways-your-work-can-be-better/
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SUMMARY:Appreciate what you have, before it turns in to something you had
DESCRIPTION:It can be incredibly awkward for men to talk about feelings, the feels, the soft bits.\nIn relationships often we defer to what happens in the bedroom or some\nphysical gift or provision to show our caring nature.\nThis challenge for me exposes vulnerabilities as I wanted to run this with\nno expectation of receiving the same in return (hence the extension of the\nchallenge to be that from your partner too!).\nI often forget to mention what is is a actually love about my wife, and as days\nrun in to busy days that run in to endless hours of childcare, school runs, work\nand house chores, it can be easy to forget why we are in this relationship in\nthe first place; what was it we actually like about each other when we first got\ntogether all those years ago?!\nA conscious effort to look at this does me, and our relationship, the world of\ngood. For me, it’s also easy to really go over the top on this exercise. I’m sure\nwe’ve all seen friends or those on social media who endlessly and publicly\nespouse their love for each other only to end up unhappy, arguing or worse\n– separating.\nI didn’t want to set the bar so high that I had to keep up this appearance of\nchildish love and adoration. Sometimes, my wife irritates me. Sometimes, she\ncan wind me up and sometimes I wish she’d do things differently. But this is\nlike the weather; short term bursts of rain clouds do not make a long term\nclimate.\nTake a risk, expose yourself to vulnerability and dare to share why you love\nyour partner or someone in your social circle. Chances are the person on the\nreceiving end is feeling the same push and pull of daily life and to offer this as\na gift won’t only make you feel better having done it but it will no doubt help\nthe partnership and the person receiving it.\nWe can do it!\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/appreciate-what-you-have-before-it-turns-in-to-something-you-had/
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SUMMARY:What are your financial goals for 12 months
DESCRIPTION:Do those close to you know your financial aims?\nI really want to do this!\nA savings plan is one thing and I found that once I had that in place I felt more\ncomfortable. But then I began to think more about what I want us to do as a\nfamily. Sometimes my own ambition was hidden and not shared to anyone.\nI’d keep to myself the financial goals and aims and then get frustrated when\nothers did certain things that went against my private aims and ambitions –\nhow were they to know?!\nSo the focus here has to be about you, the family and your collective\nambitions. Do you have conversations with your loved ones about what it is\nyou want to achieve, and what the money you are generating, saving and\ninvesting is designed to do?\nThere are many great books that support the relationship to money and the\nambitions you can realise by having a solid financial plan. One of my favourites\nwould be Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.\nWith the guidance of books like this and my desire to provide for my family\n(that includes my own ambitions!) we can now sit down and map out what our\nshort, medium and long term goals are.\nFrom dates nights, to holidays, the investments and retirements –\nwhat do you want?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/what-are-your-financial-goals-for-12-months/
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SUMMARY:List 5 things that excite you and explain why
DESCRIPTION:I don’t really think anything excites me,\njust my work and relaxing at night.\nOften times we speak with busy Dads who say things like ‘nothing really\nexcites me’ or ‘I’m not sure really, the kids I guess?’ Or ‘I dunno, excitement is\nfor other people, not me’.\nEach of these sound quite familiar at different stages of my work and home\nlife. I used to feel guilty for daring to have a thought about hanging out for a\nbeer after work with a friend I’ve not seen for a while. There would be that\nmoment of excitement realising I don’t have to worry or be responsible\nfor anything during that moment in time but then wallop! I’d get the guilt\npangs about having to be home so I’d cancel the arrangement and go home\nbecause ‘excitement was for other people’.\nBut as I get to grips again with more about what excites me I can see how this\nbenefits wholly the family unit and my professional work; I can have better\nconversations, I am more productive, I’m more fun to talk to because I can\ncontribute to conversations beyond just work and kids.\nSo if you think nothing excites you, think again.\nYou aren’t probing deep enough.\nI hope you can use this journal to help you discover more about\nwhat really excites you and why.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/list-5-things-that-excite-you-and-explain-why/
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SUMMARY:Does your current level at work help you achieve your financial goals?
DESCRIPTION:If not, what could you start to do to step up or increase your impact at work?\nRefer back to your money plan.\nIs your professional life aligned with what\nyour money life needs to give you?\nWe all enter the workplace wanting the dream job to pay for that expensive\ncar and to be able to live in a nice big house, travelling the world with our\ngenerous holiday packages don’t we?\nBut then reality hits and we see it’s wholly impossible to do all these things\nbased on our current levels of income. Obviously, the example here is\ndeliberately over the top but there is a serious point here about earning\nenough to provide for the lifestyle we wish to enjoy.\nDepending on the life stage you’re at this may be funding the next house\nmove or perhaps plotting out how to provide that nice holiday each year. I\nfound when I was in employment that my ambition and goals with reference\nto what I wanted to build in terms of lifestyle could not be matched by the\nrole I was in at work so something had to give. I had to either a) adjust my\nambition to meet the potential earnings in this position or b) move on to find\nsomething that can provide what I need.\nThe risk in doing nothing for me was the resentment that might manifest or\nthe frustration in knowing that I can never achieve what I want to achieve.\nNow I work for myself it’s on me to create income streams that can better\nsupport the lifestyle I wish to build for me and the family.\nWith that comes different pressures to those in employment but\nthe question still remains; does how I have set my business up today\ncreate the opportunity to earn what I need to earn?\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/does-your-current-level-at-work-help-you-achieve-your-financial-goals/
CATEGORIES:Work
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SUMMARY:Organise a 10 minute Q&A with the kids
DESCRIPTION:Let them ask you anything and answer honestly and openly with them.\nMake notes about what was said and how you feel afterwards.\nIt was a sunny afternoon during the first lockdown of the pandemic,\nthis is one of my lasting memories.\nIt’s fascinating what my kids have on their mind that doesn’t come out in\nconversation until I created the space and permission to do it. Like many a\nprofessional setting, we don’t find out the real crux of an issue or develop\nbetter relationships without working on the conversations to identify and\ndevelop.\nDuring the lockdown that came with the pandemic we had a lot of time\nunder each other’s feet. This meant there were times things could get a little\nstressful or short tempered. I was conscious though that lockdown and the\nconstraints that came with it also affected the kids not just us grown ups,\nso I wanted to check in with them too and show them that their opinion and\nfeelings matter.\nSo a couple of times a week I would arrange a 10 minute 1 to 1 with each of\nthem that they controlled the agenda. It was brilliant to see them setting up\nthe space in the garden; a little table, kids chairs, a plate of biscuits and 2\nglasses of water!\nIt was such a nice time that I remember fondly when then kids would truly\nshare what is on their mind as my whole attention was on them. I really think\nit helped them and something I want to continue but as things returned back\nmore to what normal was in 2019, habits get dropped or forgotten.\nNew ways of working and living were highlighted in 2020 that benefitted\nmany and encouraged a better work life blend. So I often wonder, why the\nrace to go back to pre pandemic working patterns? The 10 minute Q&A is one\nof my lasting memories so something I really need to continue!\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/organise-a-10-minute-qa-with-the-kids/
CATEGORIES:Family
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SUMMARY:Treat a loved one & treat yourself
DESCRIPTION:It doesn’t need to be expensive but connect with how this makes you feel.\n“I’m coming to take you to lunch…”\nSomething I find the hardest, I don’t know about you, is the ability to spend\nmoney on me. I found the first thing to go when I had kids was my sense of\nself, my hobbies and my discretionary spending.\nBut as humans we enjoy treating people don’t we, and we enjoy treating\nourselves. I found that these treats don’t need to be huge outpourings of love\nor overblown gestures but something nice to do that shows thought towards\nsomeone else, and also recognition for yourself about what you do.\nIf you had an evening this week that allowed you to treat a loved one, what\nwould you do?\nIf you decided having saved and budgeted that you were going to treat\nyourself, what would you do?\nHow does it make you feel?\nI’m sure I’m not the only one that may find this difficult!\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/treat-a-loved-one-treat-yourself/
CATEGORIES:Money
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SUMMARY:When was the last time you moved?
DESCRIPTION:Aiming for my 10,000 steps a day – but hybrid working didn’t help.\nHybrid working. A good thing? I’ll not challenge those thoughts with you just\nyet. There’s no doubt it can help us do our work from anywhere in the world\nand that in theory creates opportunities for us to win back some of our time.\nBut in all honestly, can you look back and think you are as active, or more\nactive, than 2019 levels for example?\nThat walk to work you don’t have anymore?\nWhat have you replaced it with?\nThe walk around the office complex on your lunch break?\nWhat has happened to that time?\nIf you’ve replaced these opportunities to be active with sitting still or eating\nsnacks then there’s some really great work you can do here.\nWhen referencing the me time that can get lost in the noise of other roles, I\nfind a super way of holding on to this precious time is to use the time between\nroles to focus on me. 10,000 steps a day. Listening that latest release, podcast\nor audio book. It supports me mentally and keeps me active in a busy life that\nwould be easier to say no to exercise and activity.\nFind the gaps and get active.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/when-was-the-last-time-you-moved/
CATEGORIES:Life
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SUMMARY:Identify what you want from work
DESCRIPTION:If the great resignation is a thing, what on earth has made people want to move on?\nWhat is missing?\nAccording to Harvard Business Review (HBR), in March 2021, 47 million people\nresigned from their work in the US. Incredible isn’t it.\nIn the professional services and sales space, the average tenure of a sales rep\nis down to little more than a year and a half.\nResearch from endless polls on LinkedIn and other platforms suggest a\ncontributing factor to people moving on so easily and quickly is the lack of\nworkplace development and workplace support.\nSo it’s a good time isn’t it to think about your workplace or business and\nthink about what do you really want to gain? Why do you do what you do?\nNow, salary notwithstanding, there will be greater purpose to your work than\njust getting paid. We spend at least a third of our adult waking lives in the\nworkplace so there has to be a greater driver than simply getting the pay\ncheck at the end of the month?\nDid you know there could very well be four generations working in the same\nworkplace today? Baby boomers, gen x, millennials, gen z and soon to be\ngeneration alpha. Each generation has their own workplace drivers and\nexpectations (must be in the office to be at work, recognised by company\ncars, better salaries vs remoter working and choosing employers based on\nvalues).\nDoes your workplace or business allow you to explore what is is that\ndrives you? What is missing for you currently and what would good\nlook like? Use this time to explore\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/identify-what-you-want-from-work/
CATEGORIES:Work
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SUMMARY:If you have young children, be home for bed time 5 days a week
DESCRIPTION:If the kids are older, drop them a message each evening this week to let them know you are thinking of them.\nBut I have work, I have meetings, I have travel, I have a busy schedule…\nWhen I started working for myself it was a relentless push to get busy. I would say yes to networking events, to meetings, to seminars, to events and to phone calls, regardless of who it was with, what the potential for success was or why I was going in the first place. But I was busy!\nTruth is I was busy being busy. And it wasn’t’ until I had the realisation that by saying yes to everything with my work I was choosing to say no to my responsibilities at home that I began to be more productive with my time and get more present at home.\nWe all have busy periods I’m sure. Seasonal trends and business patterns emerge differently, but we have to be grown up about it and see that when we are quieter or have the ability to build work about our life and not fit life in to our work, we can become not only more productive in a professional sense but wholly more productive at home.\nOne of the best things I did here was to actually diarise some time at home. If my diary looked blank at the beginning of the week I would do all I can to fill it with work. However, if I put in my diary a ‘busy’ task or ‘home time 6pm’, I will build my work around it. And guess what? It isn’t damaging work at all! Yes, when I am working away, I work away – I’m not perfect. But in the times when my workload is more admin based, business development led or general tasks, I use my time much more appropriately so when the time comes that I do need to be away, it isn’t as much of a burden on the household.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/if-you-have-young-children-be-home-for-bed-time-5-days-a-week/
CATEGORIES:Family
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SUMMARY:Make a savings plan
DESCRIPTION:\nWhat would you like to do, where would you like to go, what would you like to have paid for in 12 months?\n\n\n\nI want a month in Spain… now how do I get there?\n\n\n\nSo once I had my overview of numbers coming in and out from the family finances each month, my next step was to create some kind of savings plan.\n\n\n\nAs a boy, I never really understood the idea or concept of saving. My brother was brilliant at it, but me, as soon as it came in, I bought a CD or tape and it was gone just as soon as it arrived!\n\n\n\nNow though, my perspective is different; I have responsibilities, I have goals, I have kids.\n\n\n\nI read a superb book once (and many times since) called Profit First. It helps business owners manage business finance but the concept for me is quite similar in a personal setting.\n\n\n\nI partition a small % each month of my gross family income and hide it away.\n\n\n\nThis contributes to family savings but also family treats, holidays and the like.\n\n\n\nThis small % contribution can easily be found by addressing our monthly expenses so in my case it didn’t require earning more as such to save for things.\n\n\n\nIt’s incredibly refreshing and I find it quite comforting to know the money I’m spending on treats or holidays or putting away for a rainy day is there and budgeted for.\n\n\n\nI now set myself targets and plans to support my family finances and expenditure, as well as the business.\n\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/make-a-savings-plan/
CATEGORIES:Money
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SUMMARY:Learn something new that interests you
DESCRIPTION:I don’t have time for that, I should be at work, or at home!\nDo you remember that one time when you had a hobby? That was fun wasn’t it! Something you did that was for the sole purpose of enjoyment, not for work and not for family or financial gain, simply for you.\nWe had interests that first created the spark between ourselves and our partners. Our other half found us fun that we had interests that makes you, you. So what happened?!\nIf anything like me, when kids came along my priorities quite rightly changed. My kids will always be my priority and everything I do I will do for them. But this statement in itself means I have to do something for me because by looking after me it means I can be myself with less stress, less anxiety, less boring.\nBefore I realised the importance of this I was sacrificing the things I used to do because that’s what I thought I should do.\nI don’t have time \nI need to be at work \nI need to be at home \nI can’t afford it \nThese excuses I told myself would stop me doing things for the purpose of enjoyment. I found myself shrinking mentally as a person. I’m the type of person who enjoys learning. I’m always curious and love to have something on the go that challenges me. I find this helps me stay focussed on wider projects at work and at home, without either of these roles consuming every waking thought.\nWhat interests you? \nDon’t say nothing or I don’t know. There is something! Think outside of work. For me, football, music, reading, culture and photography. I’m not an expert in any of these but I don’t need to be – I’m a hobbyist in them and for me this is just fine.\nSo reconnect with you. \nLet’s see what that might look like.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/learn-something-new-that-interests-you/
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SUMMARY:Track every activity at work this week
DESCRIPTION:Why are you doing it?\nHow much time have you spent on it?\nThis was a revelation to me. \nBoundaries, responsibilities, accountability. It was a win, win, win.\nOften we hear don’t we about setting boundaries; don’t work too much, make sure you know where your time is best spent. This all sounds brilliant doesn’t it, but in practice how do we know that what we are doing is a productive use of time and isn’t encroaching on other roles we have to play outside of work?\nLike keeping up with my step count, I’m very well disciplined in tracking my work time too. I work on several projects and it’s important to me that I know that time invested in each is fair, is effective and has a good return on investment.\nThis challenge only really became beneficial to me when I started truly valuing my time. So often we see such disregard for our own time or that of our colleagues or customers. I assumed a value on my time – let’s say £100 per hour for example. If we aim for an 8 hour working day then I know that I have in my time wallet the equivalent of £800.\nSo all of a sudden more menial tasks become something that isn’t worth the time investment and may be something I can outsource for example. I can also track at the end of the month using an app (ATracker is my chosen app) the return on investment from each of my projects.\nAn example of how this helped me get rid of some not so good elements of my early work would be to track how much time I spent at networking events in the evenings. Let’s say this was 15 hours (including travel). By my reckoning of £100 per hour this should generate me £1500 revenue to be a worthy investment. I can tell you now, it most certainly was not bringing in this level of revenue. So my time input to revenue output was completely out of balance. Only by tracking this and seeing the results can I then make a better decision to ditch this part of my activity.\nThis gives me 15 hours back to be at home, be more productive, work on other products or proposals and get a better return on my time.\nI love this exercise, it really keeps me in control, keeps me responsible and holds me accountable for my own actions.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/track-every-activity-at-work-this-week/
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SUMMARY:Plan something exciting for the weekend for all the family
DESCRIPTION:I’ll be honest, there was an impending sense of dread.\nThis can be something I struggle with and I know is one of my weaknesses. I know I can actively avoid doing things as a whole family because of my own anxieties or presumptions that it will end in tears somewhere down the line. The dread of chaos and noise noise that will disturb others or make me look like a bad parent with terrible kids. The expense of taking a family of five out anywhere has an impact back on the roles of work and self. Not to mention the internal family stress and arguments between the kids, me and the kids, the wife the the kids and me and the Mrs.\nDoesn’t sound like great fun does it?! But this is all my own doing and all my own negative talk that is creating scenarios which haven’t yet happened and allowing that talk to prevent the risk of it happening at all by not putting myself (or the family) in that situation.\nIt’s a really challenging situation and one I’m glad to address and better myself at doing. My focus to try and overcome the blockers is to take the kids somewhere that is good for them first and me second. A coffee shop will be boring as anything for a 5 year old. A nice restaurant on a Saturday night will be too tense for an 8 year old, and a 3 year old doesn’t want to go clothes shopping.\nThey want to go swimming, running, playing football, out on bikes or parties with their mates.And you know what? When I do these things with them, as a family, I have fun too. My kids need to be kids and I need to enjoy those moments with them, not force them to be a grown up in situations where I find enjoyment. Because seeing them happy, makes me happy too.\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/plan-something-exciting-for-the-weekend-for-all-the-family/
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SUMMARY:What are your household costs each month?
DESCRIPTION:What are your fixed costs?\nWhat are your variables?\nAre you making enough to sustain your lifestyle?\nCan you make some positive changes from the results you see?\nI was shocked to see the results…\nHow much?! I remember saying\nIt’s an exercise I first did that was long overdue. I had a feeling that household costs were on the rise and it was getting to the point where I thought we were spending more in the month than what was coming in.\nIn my professional world, my business life, I knew almost down to the penny what was coming in and what was going out – in fact, I enjoyed knowing these figures. Business can be built on well managed data like this so it makes perfect sense doesn’t it to look after our household finances in such a way.\nMy results shocked me! I remember running the numbers and seeing a figure way above what I thought it would be. This was the cost of having a ‘normal’ life; kids swimming, football practice, hair chops, date night, weekly food shop. It set the bar for me to have an eye on, a north star if you like to work towards, knowing that until that magical number is reached then we aren’t able to save or invest anything.\nSo things had to change and I made it my mission, and that of the household, to try and trim variable spends by 5% this month, and 5% the next, and so on.\nThis doesn’t mean my ambition wasn’t to increase the income too, but by firstly understanding the finances and then reducing our household exposure, it dramatically helped me manage stress, pressure and anxiety associated to money.\nHow much does it cost you to just stand still?\nI hope like me, you find this exercise quite revealing.\n\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/what-are-your-household-costs-each-month/
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