Month: March 2014

  • The Hare and the Tortoise

    You’ll have heard of the fable about the hare and the tortoise, in which the hare keeps running backwards and forwards urging the tortoise to go faster, challenging, criticising, and demeaning the tortoise for being so slow. Remember how it ends? That’s right, the tortoise, slow, ambling and unexciting makes it to the end first,…

  • How Should I Structure My Therapy Practice?

    It’s probably not a question you’ve considered, but what structure do you see your business of therapy taking, sole trade, partnership or company? Most therapy practice are sole practices, ie one person practising on their own. A much smaller number operate as partnerships, and still fewer as limited liability companies. In legal terms, the main…

  • Seven Ways to Manage Negative Thought Patterns

    A couple of days ago I wrote about the impact that negative thought patterns can have on our practices, through making us unaware of opportunities, or blocking our ability to move forward. Here are seven ways to manage or shift negative thought patterns that might be getting in your way: Acknowledgement: Acknowledge the Negative Thought…

  • Are Negative Thoughts Holding Your Practice Back?

    Do you have negative thought patterns that are getting in the way of you having the practice you’d like to have? No? Maybe? Ask yourself if any of the following are familiar? There are very few clients out there No one has any money People are making other choices, such as Reiki, or Homeopathy, or…

  • The Wood and The Trees

    Looking down on the earth from an airplane you can easily distinguish mountains and rivers, woods and plains, and all the various contours of the surface of our beautiful planet. You can tell where the cities meet the country, and where the fairy fort was once part of the field. Standing on the ground, however,…

  • 12 Ways to Put Yourself Out There

    Looking for ideas to promote your practice? Here are twelve ways you could do it. Pick some that appeal to you, and are most likely to attract the clients you’d like. Think about placement too. Where are you most likely to find your ideal clients? Will the medium you’ve chosen be seen by them? Ask…

  • 5 Strategies for Having a Stress Free Practice

    “Work would be great if it weren’t for the clients” was something I heard regularly in my former occupation as an accountant. It was said tongue in cheek, but really spoke to a truth about the ambivalence that many feel about their work, and not just in accountancy. We’d like it to be easy and…