Posts by Georgie Coote
How to Create a Mindful Workspace: Tips for Small Business Owners
How to Create a Mindful Workspace: Practical Tips for Small Business Owners Your workspace is more than just a desk—it’s where ideas spark, goals take shape, and the daily hustle unfolds. But if your environment feels cluttered, distracting, or stressful, it can be hard to focus, let alone thrive. Creating a mindful workspace helps you…
Read MoreWhy Taking Breaks is Essential for Business Success
As small business owners, entrepreneurs, and leaders, we often wear multiple hats. There’s always another email to answer, a client to serve, or a project to finish. The temptation is to keep pushing through—even when our energy is running low. But here’s the thing: taking breaks isn’t a sign of weakness or wasted time. It’s…
Read MoreThe Art of Saying No: How to Prioritize Your Needs as a Small Business Owner
As small business owners, we want to be seen as reliable, flexible, and supportive. It feels natural to say “yes” to opportunities, requests, and collaborations. But saying yes to everything comes at a cost: burnout, overwhelm, and a loss of clarity about what really matters. Learning to say “no” isn’t selfish. It’s an act of…
Read MoreThe Importance of Boundaries for Small Business Owners: How to Set Limits and Reduce Overwhelm
Running your own business is exciting, fulfilling, and—let’s be honest—demanding. It’s easy to let work spill into every corner of your life, especially when you care deeply about your clients and your mission. But without boundaries, overwhelm and burnout aren’t far behind. Boundaries aren’t barriers. They’re guideposts that protect your time, energy, and mental health—while…
Read MoreSix ways to increase your emotional bank account
In a relationship, it is vital to consider keeping your emotional bank account firmly in the black. Dipping into the red can lead to disaster. In her research on how a steady diet of positive emotions can help you thrive in life, Psychologist Dr Barbara Fredrickson, identified that it requires a ratio of three positive…
Read MoreHow to Communicate with Your Partner Effectively
We’ve taken a look at how negative communication patterns affect a relationship in my last post, How Communicating Using the Four Horsemen Can Erode Your Relationship. Now let’s look at how we can approach communication more positively. Learning to communicate effectively matters, and it’s not always easy. Remember, it’s not selfish to communicate your needs.…
Read MoreHow Communicating Using the Four Horsemen Can Erode Your Relationship
Communication is vital if you are trying to reconnect with your partner after years of being together but feeling you have drifted apart. Sometimes we slip into negative communication patterns harmful to our relationship; John Gottman identifies these as a relationship’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While these patterns show up in many relationships, I…
Read MoreSetting boundaries: Why they are essential in every relationship
Setting boundaries and communicating them to those around you is essential in every relationship; for your partner to know what you want and what you don’t. For your mother-in-law to see what you will accept in your relationship and what you won’t. For your kids to understand that Mom is a person in her own…
Read MoreHow to change your mindset to improve your relationship
When we are in a long-term relationship, the early days of passionate love start to wear off, and we move into a more comfortable, deeper, steady type of love that comes with the feelings of security you have with a long-term partner. But often, we get annoyed by our partner’s quirks, habits, or perceived faults,…
Read MorePassionate love vs. Compassionate love
Do you feel the spark has gone after spending many years in your long-term relationship? That the passionate love has been buried deep under the challenges of your marriage? This is not uncommon in a relationship that has weathered life’s ups and downs and has, well, to be honest, experienced life. Stresses may have eaten…
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