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Do you regularly keep track of your accomplishments? 👀 🍒
14/09/2026

Do you regularly keep track of your accomplishments? 👀 🍒

Proud to always choose a local business over a national chain when we can. TAG your favourite small business in the comm...
13/09/2026

Proud to always choose a local business over a national chain when we can. TAG your favourite small business in the comments.🌞

And don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. 😉
12/09/2026

And don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. 😉

There's no right way to run a business, so stop chasing the 'SHOULDS'.This is your permission to do it your way. 🚧 ✈️ 🌞 ...
10/09/2026

There's no right way to run a business, so stop chasing the 'SHOULDS'.

This is your permission to do it your way. 🚧 ✈️ 🌞 ✨ 💫

We know this is sometimes easier said than done. In Sam Thurlow's latest piece for High Flying Design, she makes it easy by breaking down 3 ways you can break free from the ‘shoulds’ in business.

https://www.highflyingdesign.com/magazine/breaking-free-from-shoulds

just so you know
06/09/2026

just so you know

A few years ago, everything .ie had asked for started arriving at once: the bigger stages, the real money, my name in t...
03/09/2026

A few years ago, everything .ie had asked for started arriving at once: the bigger stages, the real money, my name in the Irish Independent and Stellar, on RTÉ and Newstalk, on Fox News in Detroit.

Do you know what she did with all of it? She went blasé!

A friend actually pulled her up on it.

There she was, mentioning that she was writing a book and speaking on American stages in the same flat tone she'd use to say she'd booked the car in for a service.

Her friend looked at Jennifer and said, "Do you hear yourself?"

Jennifer was dimming the whole thing down, making it smaller as it came out of her mouth, because some old part of her had decided it was safer to act like none of it was a big deal than to stand fully in the fact that it was.

That's the fear nobody recognises as fear...

It doesn't always look like hiding under the duvet. Sometimes it looks like being suspiciously blasé about the best, most exciting year in your business, because if you don't make it matter, then you don't have to change, and you don't have to risk others seeing you differently, or worry it might cost you a friendship.

And she's not an exception to the rule(!), which is why she's taken a forensic look into why ambitious women fear success for : https://www.highflyingdesign.com/magazine/mindset/fear-of-success

I bet you've been asked at least one of the questions in the top half of this image in the last month... are we right? 😉...
03/09/2026

I bet you've been asked at least one of the questions in the top half of this image in the last month... are we right? 😉

I bet no one has asked you the question at the bottom.

Bose Akadiri asks it of everyone she meets. She met a stranger at an event, opened with it, and watched the woman's face light up as she talked about problem-solving and how much she loves a challenge.

So, seeing as you're here. What brings YOU joy?

Then set goals that amplify it, rather than goals you'll celebrate one day if there's time. Life is precious, and there's no reason to wait for some distant goal to celebrate.

Bose's piece on using joy as your litmus test for decisions is up on High Flying Design now. 🔗 👇

https://www.highflyingdesign.com/magazine/mindset/using-joy-to-make-decisions

So, what brings you joy? Tell us in the comments.

The norm is to set a goal, then celebrate once it’s been achieved. But what if we got serious with ourselves about what ...
02/09/2026

The norm is to set a goal, then celebrate once it’s been achieved. But what if we got serious with ourselves about what brings us joy, then set goals that amplify that joy? Flip the script. Life is precious, and there’s no reason to wait for some distant goal to celebrate. 👀

Postponing joy raises the risk of burnout, because you go non-stop without pausing for anything, let alone recognition. And as high-achieving women, we tend to move the goalposts every time we get close, so the celebration never arrives.

That sounds awful! But it's how a lot of us live, Bose Akadiri included, until she realised the answer was to start with joy, let it guide her decision-making, live in joy on the journey, and amplify it every step of the way.

Read more from Bose in her article, 'Using Joy as Your Litmus Test: How to Determine Which Decisions Are Right for You' on 👇

https://www.highflyingdesign.com/magazine/mindset/using-joy-to-make-decisions

An everyday reminder 🤭
01/09/2026

An everyday reminder 🤭

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