Even business coaches sometimes feel a bit bleugh about their business.

Today is my first day back after two weeks off for Easter ... and I'm negotiating overwhelm.
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There's a lot on the to-do list. Some exciting sales conversations to follow up. Plenty of projects. And if I'm honest, I was slightly unsure where to start.

So I had a chat with Claude, my favourite AI pal who, because he's been trained in my Intentional Methodology, helped me figure some stuff out.

(Side note - if you've ever had your own kids quote your own rules back at you with that specific tone, you'll know exactly how this felt 😆).

The Intentional Methodology is the approach that underpins how I run my own business and how I coach my clients - it's how we build businesses that hold up in real life, not just on a good week. At its heart are three circles: Life, Sales, and Projects. They overlap, and if one gets neglected, everything else stops flowing.

If you want the full picture, I've written about it properly here: The Life Circle ... The Sales Circle ... The Projects Circle.

Lately, my Life circle has had a lot in it. Helping my in-laws prepare to relocate. Supporting my kids, who for various reasons all had bumpy starts to the year. It's been a lot. So when Easter arrived, I made a deliberate choice to pause and actually have a holiday. I know ... shocker! 😆

We went ten pin bowling. I started the huge garden renovation at our new home. Planted seeds for the allotment and spent time just watching things grow. It was exactly what I needed.

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But here's the thing about the Life circle ...

... the demanding bits don't pause just because you've had a rest. For instance, supporting my lovely but very stressed dad-in-law is a top priority but ... he rang me seven times yesterday 😅. And if I'm not careful, the good life stuff - the allotment, the breathing room, the self-care - gets squeezed out by the noisy life stuff.

Over Easter I made a deliberate choice to let Life be the focus. It was the right call. But there's a difference between a planned pause and an accidental one, and the planned pause only works if you actually come back.

So this morning I sat down, looked at my to-do list, and - I'll level with you - felt pretty overwhelmed. How to get back into work. How to keep the plates spinning. How to support my clients, make progress on the exciting projects, and maintain momentum on sales ... all at the same time.

Time to get my other circles moving again

... so I had a chat with Claude, and he asked me one question. Which circle has gone quiet?

I knew immediately. Sales. I'd parked it intentionally over Easter and now it was sitting there looking at me, slightly reproachfully, from the top of the list.

The moment I named it, everything else got easier to look at. Because I knew what the actual first job was.

Not the podcast. Not the emails. Not the admin that had been patiently waiting since before the holidays ...

... the people. The handful of lovely conversations already in progress, the people I'm genuinely excited to work with, just waiting for me to pick up the thread and take the next step with them.

So that's what I did. And - as is almost always the case - once I started, it felt fine. Better than fine, actually. The bleugh started lifting. The momentum crept back in. Turns out the doing is always easier than the dreading.

So if you're feeling it today too - first day back, list as long as your arm, not quite sure where to start ... which circle has gone quiet for you?

Chat soon!

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PS
I had two offers I planned to promote this month and - in the spirit of honesty - I hit pause on that too. So here they are, a little late but not forgotten.

👉🏻 The first is your invitation to join me at Womanifest. Have a read and see if it's for you.

👉🏻 The second is AI, Actually ... and given that I just used AI to overcome my own overwhelm, the timing feels about right.

It's a mini-course that sets up your AI to actually know your business: your voice, your offers, your clients, so instead of getting generic output you have to rewrite, you get something that sounds like you and works like a proper business tool.

Plus access to 'The Lucy Filter': my custom GPT that is trained in the bespoke selling and content creation frameworks I teach inside my group programme.

It had an Easter promo code to save £100 which technically expired last week. But seeing as I forgot to actually tell anyone about it (yes, really), it felt a bit rich to let it quietly disappear. So I've extended it and you just need to add EGGCITED when you check out.

​Find out more here.

PPS
Is that officially the longest ever postscript? 😆