The spark* blog
Thoughtful insights for socially responsible entrepreneurs who give a ****! Honest conversations about impact, wellbeing and creating sustainable change.
Are all those courgettes?
The packet had fifteen seeds in it, so I planted fifteen seeds. A quarter of everything I could grow that year went into a vegetable I ended up leaving on a footpath for strangers. A client who’d sold her business and given herself a year out made the same mistake with her time, filling it with everything she wanted in slivers too thin to get into. This is about the difference between deciding what you want and deciding how much of it you want at once.
If it isn't diarised it isn't realised
My personal calendar died last night. I spent the evening trying to recover it and concluded it was gone. This morning I had a choice: fix it, or come to writers group and write. I came to write - and here's why that decision matters beyond this article existing at all.
Same desk, same thinking
Something keeps coming up in my coaching conversations. Founders who are stuck - not because they lack ideas or capability, but because they've been staring at the same four walls for too long.
Here's the thing: where you think matters as much as what you think about.
In this post, I share three founder stories - and a simple question that most of us never actually ask ourselves deliberately.