Never waste an opportunity

It seemed a wasted opportunity not to use the analogy of my daughter drying her wet sock for work this morning. And I had nothing else to write.

It also meant I could take the mick out of her - so double win: parenting and business messaging before 9am. Follow me for more top tips.

Because honestly… what is the point of having children if not to turn their chaos into content? Especially as they get older and are apparently actually adults.

Here’s the lecture I lovingly deliver d at 8am while I slurped my coffee watching my best achievement wrangle with adulting from the comfort of my bed - the art of winging it will only get you so far.
(And I say that as someone who’s winged it like an absolute pro at times. I’m not sure who she takes after.) (obviously I didn’t deliver the lecture. That’s just a clumsy segue into a LI appropriate message. I mainly just laughed at her.)

But at some point, we’ve all got to stop sprinting barefoot through life hoping the opportunity won’t notice our soggy socks.

You want to feel ready, not ragged.
Prepared, not panicked.
Clear, not clinging to a hairdryer and hope.

Whether it’s your next move in business, a big idea you’ve been sitting on, or just the deep work you’ve been dodging - get ahead of it.
Not because you’re behind.
But because you deserve to be ready when it lands. And there’s nothing worse than walking round all day in a soggy sock.

Now I’m off to drink another smug cup of coffee while she finds her other sock and I bask in the knowledge that I’ve prepped for my training delivery this morning and, obviously, award myself parent of the year because of her inspirational, no wet sock will beat me attitude.

(Picture of my fabulous daughter hastily drying her wet sock because she didn’t take her washing out of the washer last night and has not a sock to wear. Flying by the seat of her socks. Or something.)