Monthly Archives: January 2024

Thank you for joining me in this week’s Pondering's that are actually very confronting and uncomfortable to share, however, when you read this true story, I know it will be an important message for you and you will probably always remember it. I have pondered this because I absolutely love ‘experts’; people who have a passion and wisdom built over years of investment in themselves. This is why Thomas and I have supported experts for over 25 years, some call themselves solopreneurs and small businesses, most are so humble about the wisdom they have, and many find it hard to…

Thank you for joining me again with my ‘Ponder’ and, this week, together we can think about all those moments we were challenged, those moments of adversity and how life turns out depending on how we reacted to it. None of us have sailed through life without some serious moments of pain that caused us to develop our inner self. I imagine, like me, you are quite grateful for those times, even if the memory of those moments can still hurt in some cases. I remember each year, at this time, the moment my sister rang to say her daughter…

Thank you for joining me on this and I would welcome your thoughts on the opinions I am a about to share because this week, I have been pondering the fact that I now call myself a Small Business Owner, following 22 years of being an Entrepreneur. Maybe this will help someone to define their mindset this year and I would love that as it helped me hugely when I defined this for myself. When I became responsible for an idea I came up with in 1998, Ecademy, the first Social Network in the world, I had never worked for…

Happy week 2 of January, I hope the year is going well so far for you. This past week, I thought I would spend time pondering my willpower and whether I had a strong or weak willpower and how I can apply it to those things I need to give up, as well as those things I would like to achieve. I guess both should be a ‘towards’ emotion, rather than an ‘away’ from. My greatest issue is sugar, in the form of chocolate, and every single year since I became a mum (31 years ago) I have had the…

  Happy New Year and may your year be filled with Happy Moments. This week my pondering is about happy moments and the power of knowing you are noticing the moments in your life that are happy. When I met Thomas, he noticed that I was always saying, "isn’t this a lovely moment?", or "I want to savour this moment". Later in our life he said that my grave stone should say “Penny lived her life through happy moments". A colleague once said to me in 1998, "you get pleasure out of such tiny things". Go forward 15 years and…