Happy Monday everyone! It's been a long weekend here and I've spent the last few days trying to get my new website finished and doing a lot of crafting projects as a way to rest and reset. My goal this week is to finish off my website and get it live - I procrastinated on it for a long time and now it's all coming together nicely, so that should be done in the next couple of days! 🚀 On a personal note, I've been trying to get more consistent with the gym, so my goal is to go to the gym at least 3 times this week! 💪 What's everyone elses goal for the week?

I've just downloaded a program called Leonardo AI... I'm writing a children's book and decided to try to create my own images instead of paying $5-$7K for an illustrator. I feel conflicted, as of course I'd love a real life illustrator, but also budget is a huge factor. Now, to find time to learn yet another software program. It's never my actual grief work that is a challenge.. grief work is the EASY part for me and I love my work.. it's the business side of it that is a challenge... the learning and finding extra time to be a software and web designer, book keeper, content creator, social media algorithm expert, etc etc.. none of which I am but am trying to figure out fast!!! Fortunately having brilliant women in my corner like in this group and outside of here is what has helped.

Hi All, I thought I'd share a few different tools I use to help me in our business, along with what I use them for. Feel free to add your own list in the comments too. 🤗 1. Monday.com (free version) - to do list & tracker I use monday to build out a really comprehensive to do list, and then also have an upcoming events section - this helps me plan my work more effectively and I can see everything in the one space. They recently released a new feature that allows you to have multi-level boards which has also been great. I did move over to Notion for a short period and really loved that too, but moved back to Monday because I just needed an easy "to do" list that I could move around and group items etc. 2. ChatGPT (paid) - content writing & brainstorming I use ChatGPT like a search engine these days and to help me find / explore information - I have a good history built up and so use it to also help me pull together articles and posts - I've trained it over the years for my tone of voice, but have started to transition more over to Claude 3. Claude (paid) - brainstorming, automations & creating documents samples / templates I've only just started using Claude about a month ago, so am still learning how to optimise it. The first thing I had it do was go through and clean up all my files in on my laptop - it was amazing! I just saw that Claude have released some new workflows and automations to help with Small Businesses so I'm excited to learn more about these and see if I can use them in our business / help others set them up in their businesses. 4. Google Suite (paid) - emails + general ops management This gives us our custom emails @milkingducks.com + @duckduckpig.com.au emails as well as access to google drive where we try to store all our important docs so they're in the cloud not on our devices. 5. Canva (paid) - content creation We use Canva to create social media tiles, slide decks, anything creative really. 6. Square - POS for our roadside stall + markets

Big or small - what’s one thing you want to make progress on? Could be: - launching something - finishing a task you’ve been avoiding - getting organised - showing up consistently - resting more - moving your body - posting content - making your first sale - simply surviving the week 😅 - Drop it below 👇Let’s celebrate progress, not perfection.

Happy Saturday everyone! I’m spending today recharging my batteries doing some creative projects. How does everyone else recharge and reset?