Hi Reader,

Something keeps happening on my calls recently.

A business owner gets in touch looking for ongoing support. They arrive with a list of what they need help with and what they think is making them feel too busy and in need of some help. Underneath it all sits the feeling that the whole business needs pulling apart and putting back together.

Then we talk it through, and more often than not, it isn’t the whole business. It’s one thing.

Why one thing can throw the whole thing off.

Your business doesn’t run in neat, separate boxes. When one part slows down, it backs up into everything that comes after it.

Maybe it’s a decision you keep putting off, a process that only lives in your head, or a task that sits waiting for you to get to it. Everything that depends on it waits too. Deadlines slip, other work gets squeezed, and you end the week feeling behind again. It feels as though everything is going wrong. But it often started with just one thing.

Clear that one thing, and most of the rest will feel much more manageable.

I've written more about this on the blog this week, including four questions to help you find your own One Thing. You'll need a cup of tea and an honest look at last week, nothing more.

Read Not every problem needs ongoing business support.

Breaking a fifteen year way of working!

For fifteen years, I’ve only worked with clients long term. For a lot of businesses, that’s still the right answer and it is what I will always continue to do.

But those conversations made me see how many people are carrying a business-sized worry about what is really a one-thing-sized problem. So for the first time, I’m opening a small number of focused sessions to help.

It’s called One Less Thing. One focused 75-minute session on the one thing that keeps landing on your desk. We trace it back to where it starts and agree what happens to it, and you leave with it decided, handed over, simplified or gone, plus a written plan you can start on straight away.

It’s £197 + VAT, there are 10 sessions available.

Find out more and book One Less Thing​

If something came to mind while you were reading this, that’s probably your one thing. There are 10 places, and I’d love one of them to be yours.

Have a great weekend!

Katie