I know that you may not love styling like we do, but we love you anyway.

I found this for you, hope you enjoy it!
Oh, and to somehow connect this post with styling, look out for the beautiful “Ornamental Turtle” about 1 minute in.

Oh yeah…

Tomorrow is the first day of Spring, and I am loving the warmth creeping back into everyday life. The kids are playing on the trampoline again. We are enjoying morning coffee on the front deck overlooking the park and listening to the children squeal with delight as they swing as ‘high as the sky’!

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We all make emotional buying decisions…

The big marketers all understand this fact and that is why they spend millions and millions each year on making their products look and feel good!

And, when you are selling your house, you should too! Otherwise you are just throwing money down the toilet…

Just check out the ‘before and after’ transformation of this small inner-city apartment we recently styled.

Which version has more value in the buyer’s eyes? Which would attract a premium price? Which lifestyle would YOU fall in love with?

Make sure YOU don’t throw any money down the toilet when selling your property…

Before: Living Room

After: Living Room

After: Living Room

After: Living Room

Before: Master Bedroom

After: Master Bedroom

Before: Outdoor Living

After: Outdoor Living

I just love this….it’s from Clare Lancaster at .

http://www.womeninbusiness.com.au/

I love it because I think we should all be out there living rich, full lives that light us up. That make us feel excited about getting out of bed everyday. Lives that are a little bit scary too. So we’re not just cruising in the ‘dead zone’ where every day looks the same.

Living in possibility. We should be backing ourselves and going for it.

Thanks for the reminder Clare.

Go for it, everybody!

Deb x

We recently went to Fiji for 2 weeks – and it turned out to be not only very, very relaxing, but also really good for our business.

Here’s why.

What is the main point of a holiday? For some people it is just to relax and forget about their regular life for a while.
Other people like to travel, learn about a culture and forget about their regular life for a while.
Others like to party, meet new people, and forget about their regular life for a while.

Ok, so whatever the reason people go on holidays, most people love the fact that they get to forget about their regular life for a while.
(The best bit I love to forget is cooking. Don’t you just love turning up at a restaurant and saying “I’ll have the lobster…”!)

This was our experience too.

While in Fiji, we didn’t make one phone call, check our email or even look at a computer screen – not once! (Some of our internet sites went down briefly as a result, but that’s another story J)

Once I was swimming in the bliss of forgetfulness, I started to remember other things.

Things like how much the kids love it when you spend all day just hanging out with them, and how much I enjoy talking to friends over a slow and relaxing glass of wine. And how I really love to walk slowly and enjoy nature – (or ride in a speed boat out to a snorkeling spot).

OK, so its an obvious point, but holidays give you the time to reconnect with the most important things in your life – what some people call “First Things”. Suddenly the Steven Covey chapter called ‘First Things First’ (you can read this in his classic book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) makes a whole lot more sense.

Through all this forgetting about your busy life, and remembering your ‘First Things’ you reconnect with the whole reason you went into business in the first place.

By the end of the holiday I was ready to come home and start remembering all over again.

This is what I remembered: My business is a machine to liberate time and money. My business is the vehicle that allows me to enjoy my ‘first things’. And also, my business will allow me to travel again.

So by the time my holiday ended and I said my last ‘Bula’ for a while – I was well and truly ready to go back and tweak my business, to get it doing the job it is supposed to do.

I’ve also started planning my next holiday – oh, and I’m thinking about how I can get my own personal chef.