Time Management Lessons from Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral & Life
It’s not every day a monarch reigns for over 70 years and when they die has a funeral that is watched by more than 4 billion people around the world, here are 3 Time Management Lessons we can learn from Queen Elizabeth II’s Life & her Funeral. 1. Military Precision On the day everyone had…
8 Things I am grateful for in 2021
Here are 8 things I learned about myself, business life in 2021. 1. Set Goals – Be flexible in your execution I don’t know about you, I like to start my New Year at FULL speed. Which up until 2021 has served me well. This year it meant I hit the wall (UK Lockdown 3/4)…
Tapping into your big vision life
This week in The Productive Wellbeing Club on Clubhouse we had Melanie Moore the UK’s leading Vision Board expert and award-winning coach. She inspires her clients to tap into their Big Vision and gives them the mindset tools to change the trajectory of their lives. Below are her answers to the questions I asked her,…
22 Productivity Tips shared in our Room on Clubhouse
Launching The Productive Wellbeing Club on Clubhouse Last week (5 May 2021) I ran our first room on Clubhouse (new social media app) under The Productive Wellbeing Club. Introducing Members and the audience to the concept of Productive Wellbeing. With this Club and the work we do at Success by Design Training we are on…
Get your Mojo back in 2021
Where 2020 was about innovating, pivoting and staying in business/employment the theme of 2021 so far has been one of managing our mental health. A New Year, of new lockdowns in the UK and around the world has seen many of us lose our mojo’s in a haze of winter weather and challenging news. For…
The best books to read if you want to start your own business
I’d always wanted to start my own business, but not knowing anyone who’d done it before meant I had no idea how to get started and even less of a clue about what I should be doing on a day to day basis to actually run said business. There’s a lot more to it than…
The Productive Wellbeing Show | Journey to 52 Episodes
My name is Abigail Barnes I am the Founder of Success by Design Training, an award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker and corporate trainer on time management and productive wellbeing. I am also a qualified coach and creator of the renowned 888 Formula. On Monday 16 March 2020, I became the host and producer of The Productive…
How do you measure success?
This month we hosted the final panel discussion of our 2019 Redefining Success Series. This year we asked Annik Petrou, Siobhan Kangataran and Lovelda Vincenzi (Feb) Lucy Chamberlain, Angela Cox and Michael Kurn (May) and Ruth Kudzi, Jess Gardiner and Laura Try (Nov) to share their stories with us. Each of our panelist’s has redefined what success means to them and fundamentally changed their ‘career/life plans’ to create the…
3 marketing beliefs stopping your business from growing
Here are 3 marketing beliefs that are stopping your business from growing, forcing you to work harder than you need too and will ultimately lead to burnout, bankruptcy or both (there are more but these are the most common in the business owners we meet/work with). 1. Hope Marketing – The belief that if you…
Are you investing or wasting time?
The clock is always ticking, days become months, months become years, and years become a lifetime. No one has worked out how to stop or rewind time, are you investing or wasting time? Everyone gets the same 24 hours, but not everyone is getting the same results. WHY do some people get more return on…
