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Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree top, when baby comes, will employment stop?

Easter, like Spring, focuses our minds on birth and new beginnings.Β  Most of us welcome the lighter and longer evenings (once we have got over losing an hour’s sleep), and who can resist the beauty of the blossoms on the trees and the fluffy ducklings and gambolling lambs?Β  Yet last week a Government-commissioned report showed

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Novel Networking

I am always thinking about the 7k members of my networking group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/laurelleafnetworking/) and, never more so, than just before an upcoming meeting and our March event is now just two weeks away.Β  This month, Caroline Ratner of Caroline Ratner Communications (http://www.carolineratnercommunications.com) Β is giving a short talk on how to perfect your pitch and I

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Stand on your bottom, what?! The truth about sitting

Stand on your bottom, what?! The truth about sitting Look at how the bottom of the spine joins with the pelvis.Β What changes toΒ that relationship when the weight bearing changes from going through your hips, and ultimately to the ground via your feet, to going through your sit bones into your chair?Β Not much! You’ll notice that

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Make meaningful business connections for your small business

Networking tips to grow your business Are you looking for sole proprietor inspiration? Need business advice or seeking new business opportunities? There is no better way to start those conversations than through networking. There are numerous forums and business networking groups in social channels such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Reddit. Online forums are excellent ways

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Start Here

Start Here is one of the first core lessons from Lessons Alive. It so captivated the 9 year old boy whose lesson it was (and me), that I realised many other children could also benefit from it and wrote it into a short story called Start Here. At the end, I always ask the children

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Exercise To Feel Good

A QUICK & SIMPLE EXERCISE TO FEEL GOOD It’s January, the silly season is over, perhaps leaving you feeling flat.Β  The days are short, dark, cold, rainy, overcast and cloudy. Yuck & argh.Β Β  Do the winter months make you feel as if you are walking up hill wearing shoes of cement, anxious, miserable, lacking in

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