I don’t know about you, but I am very much over the trope of ‘new year, new me’. I know it may sound appealing after the kind of year 2020 has been, but pause for a moment and let me tell you why I’m not buying into it anymore.

“Working with Beth was by far the best investment I have ever made.

By investing time into myself I was able to discuss my professional and personal goals as well as address some of the anxieties I had been battling with from years ago.”

It was 2017: I was recently single, facing up to my post-traumatic stress disorder from sexual assault, was two and a half stone heavier than I knew was healthy for my body and had no idea where I was going career wise.

When we build something up in our minds, psyche ourselves up for it then it doesn’t happen or doesn’t go the way we want, do we crumble like Miss Havisham, stuck in our own bitter world or do we pick ourselves back up and charge back into life?

Insecurities. They haunt us all.

The problem is, we don’t know each others and the reasons behind them. Your horrible manager may put you down because they are unhappy at home or feel that they don’t have the experience to be where they are.

We are surrounded by images, TV shows, social media, apps and magazines depicting relationships or relationship advice.

Has all of this warped what we see as a healthy, normal relationship? How does this affect our personal and professional lives?

When asked what confectionary I would currently describe myself as, I said a room temperature Cadbury Eclair. You know, those caramel goodnesses with a heart of chocolate. So yummy!

But why?

It’s ok to not be ok. It’s great to not be perfect because you know what?

100 years ago women got the vote. But how far have we actually come?

Let’s talk about rejection and failure.

Are you doing what makes you happy? Fulfilled? Providing what you want in life?

When you get a new project, there are three clear stages that all require a slightly different mindset: creating, planning and doing.

How do we make sure we are spending our precious time on what really matters to us?

In the business world, there never seems to be enough hours in the day.