What it actually looks like to run multiple income streams as one deliberate career – the trade-offs, the identity shift, and the decisions that come with protecting your time.
Xero for sole trader and limited company accounting is how I manage the books across every business I run. I have run two very different businesses through Xero. The first was a food company – street food, festival catering, pub residencies, a dark kitchen – with staff, payroll, multiple VAT rates across different product types,…
Someone suggested I run cookery classes from home recently. It’s not a bad idea. I can cook, I have the space, and there’s probably a market for it. I didn’t write it off – I put it in the folder. Then I looked at it properly. It’s not remote. It doesn’t scale. Both of those…
I lost a nursery block to a popup. Not a crisis, not an emergency – a small shiny rectangle at the corner of my screen telling me Claude Desktop was ready to set up. I had a full five hour block ahead of me. I had a clear task in front of me. I clicked…
Organising life into projects is how I manage a limited company, two rental properties, two websites and a young family without it spilling into everything else. Most advice about work and money focuses on growth, more projects, more income streams, more complexity. I do want growth, but I have found that organisation is what makes…
Learning to say no to protect your business is harder than it sounds. A few months ago I committed to a friend’s 40th. A week in a villa abroad in October, a half marathon, the works. I paid the deposit and then spent months quietly dragging my feet. The flights weren’t booked. The dates loomed….