Wish lists of inspiration

Like most females of the species, I'm a great fan of lists.  Lots of them, shopping, To-do Today, To-Do this week (never entirely completed, To-Do this month to help make me rich (never completed at all), Work Task lists (mostly ignored), To Be Done Around the House lists (mostly passed over to Daddy Native).

I'm going to start a new collection of lists here to share with you all.  The fun one - A Wish List.  This will gather together all the beautiful stuff I would long for and ask Daddy Native for if he paid any attention to such wishful lists, and hopefully will give you some ideas too!  The serious one - An Inspiration List.  I'm thinking of changing career. Radically.  So I've been reading a lot about various entrepreneurs looking for inspiration to learn from and thought it might be worth sharing with you and feeding into your ideas too!

We all need good role models to learn from and inspire us to fulfill our own ambitions.  One of mine is Sophie Cornish, MD & co-founder of the rather wonderful notonthehighstreet.com.  Sophie is an obvious role model  for me to start with, as she is a working mother, balancing creativity, running a household and family with an expanding successful self built business.  How on earth does she manage it?  In this week's Stylist magazine she explains that it's all done to lists.  Ha!  Lesson 1 completed and ticked already! Hurrah.

Sophie has previously also written about the constant juggle and up hill climb required to balance raising a family with the desire to succeed in business.  You can read this article here, along with a piece on how the business began here.  I recommend you add both links to this week's Reading List.