I’ve been hearing a lot recently about resilience in the workplace and how important it is for our personal wellbeing. I thought I would do some research on the subject, as in our line of work it is increasingly essential that we remain resilient.

Life today is moving at such a fast pace with so many choices for people living in affluent countries, giving us a freedom of choice never experienced before. Great, we may think, but this can often lead to dissatisfaction or even paralysis when faced with too many options.

As a business owner there are an endless number of things that you need to do just to keep standing still, let alone grow your business and it’s hard to remember everything that you need to do sometimes without writing them down. According to some research, you are 42% more likely to achieve your goals if you write them down.

I always enjoy the festive break as it gives me thinking time before the start of a new year. This Christmas I was thinking a lot about customer service and how one bad experience can put you off using a company you’ve used for years.

It’s the time of year when work can sometimes feel like a struggle, and it can be a real challenge to stay motivated and focused. There are soooooo many reasons to feel distracted, your holiday, your children being on holiday, colleagues and customers responding slower, the hot (!) weather, the list could go on

I can’t believe it’s 17 years ago this month that I started blueumbrella. Where has the time gone?! Armed with only an address book, fixed landline phone, a Blackberry, dial-up internet and a huge desktop PC I started my virtual assistant business all those years ago!

Happy new year to you, we hope you had an enjoyable and restful Christmas period. At blueumbrella we have hit the ground running in 2018, with a host of new and exciting clients we’re working with and have been inundated with enquiries for our services.

Do you, like me, wonder where time goes, especially at weekends? As the clocks went back and we gained an hour it got me thinking once again about time and how to make the best use of it.