Inspiration Archives

Important EU VAT Update: What Happens To VATMOSS & The New Thresholds After Brexit?

Remember the €10k threshold and sub-€100k simplifications we negotiated, which come into effect on 1st January 2019? Well, we’ve had confirmation from the EU Commission that UK microbusinesses will get to keep them for a whole 88 days. Here’s what will happen to VATMOSS and the new thresholds after Brexit.

This video is a really important update from the EU VAT Action Campaign team – one I had hoped I would never have to record.

Please spend a few minutes watching it and then follow the guidelines below this video to write to your MP. Please share this post far and wide in any microbusiness groups you’re part of.

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Guidelines For Writing To Your MP:

For the letter to your MP, please ask them to ensure we keep the current €10k threshold, the sub-€100k simplifications and the VATMOSS system during the transitional period, with a view to finding a permanent, workable solution.

The 3 Ps: please keep your letter:

Polite – even if they think Brexit is a fab idea, they have to help you and are more likely to do so if you keep it polite.
To the Point – one side of A4.
Personal – telling them how this affects you, your business and your family.

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Thank you!

x Clare

Author of Dare To Dream Bigger | Mentor to Passionate World Changers

Gratitude: Why Positive Thinking Isn’t Enough

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“But how do I feel gratitude? I get stuck with thinking it and it doesn’t make any difference!”

This fabulous question was asked by one of my readers this week.

It’s time to talk about the elephant in the room – why so often positive thinking isn’t enough; it doesn’t work. In fact, it can make us feel worse.

And if you’re a passionate world changer, it can hold you back from making the difference you are really here to make in the world.

If you ever get stuck in your ‘thinking mind’, you won’t want to miss this video.

Here’s a whistle-stop tour of the neuroscience behind this – and some practical inspiration for what you can do instead.

Let me know how you get on with the techniques I share in this video – which shifts they create for you. And how might you remind yourself to use them? I’d love to hear from you, via the comments.

And if you want more inspiration from my ‘The School Run’s Done’ series, here’s where you can find the archives.

x Clare

Clare Josa | Mentor to Passionate World Changers

P.S. Not got A Year Full Of Gratitude yet? Order your copy today and make sure you join the readers’ club to learn how to turn your inner critic into your biggest cheerleader. x C.

Did You Know That ‘Gratitude’ Can Make You Feel Worse?

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This super-common gratitude mistake can actually make us feel worse – yet nearly all of us are doing it.

Find out how to spot it – and how to avoid it – plus some ninja-tips for taming your inner critic on your passionate world changer journey:

And when you’ve watched this, I’d love to hear from you, via the comments:

Do you ever find yourself falling into this trap?
How does it feel to turn it around and imagine taking action from a place of feeling confident and empowered?
What could you do, in the next 24 hours, to put this into practice?

x Clare

Clare Josa | Author of A Year Full Of Gratitude

P.S. Not got your copy yet? Get A Year Full Of Gratitude here. And make sure you join the readers’ club to get the incredible deep-dive resources that are waiting for you there. x C.

Gratitude & Sticky Socks: Why Positive Thinking Can Be A Waste Of Time

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In today’s #theschoolrunsdone inspiration for Passionate World Changers, we’re talking about stinky sports socks and gratitude – and why this is a metaphor for how positive thinking can be a waste of time:

So, were you trying to dilute that stinky sock water with a thimble-full of positive thinking? Are you ready to pull the plug and let the sink empty, so you can fill it back up with thoughts that make you feel happier?

Remember: you get a year full of step-by-step how-to in A Year Full Of Gratitude. I’d love to share this journey with you.

x Clare

Imposter Syndrome: It’s Not All In Your Head

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Despite melting in the UK’s heat wave (yes, it finally got too hot even for my Mediterranean blood) I’ve been talking about imposter syndrome – it has been everywhere. It has come up in groups I’m in on social media, it has come up with mentoring clients, and I even ran a deep-dive training session on it yesterday.

But here’s the thing: imposter syndrome isn’t all in your head.

It isn’t something you can ‘think’ your way out of.

And it breaks my heart to see people trying to ‘push on through’ with imposter syndrome, like it’s something we have to put up with, living life through gritted teeth and pretending we’re ok.

If you’re about to go on stage and imposter syndrome strikes, it will affect your neurochemistry and make it harder for you to be in flow – to inspire.
If you get an email from a journalist, asking for an interview, you’re more likely to ‘accidentally’ leave replying until it’s too late.
If you’re offered an opportunity that could give you a chance to shine – and make the difference you’re really here to make – then imposter syndrome could cause you to convince yourself you’re too busy, or it’s not a good fit for you.
If we secretly dream of publishing a book, it gets us distracted by ‘other priorities’, turning down PR or even not writing it at all.
And it gets us discounting our prices, even before potential clients have asked about our fees. And not sending newsletters, because we’re telling ourselves that we ‘don’t want to bother people’.

Imposter syndrome happens when who we think we need to be, to fulfil our dreams, doesn’t match with how we see ourselves.

And when you make changes at that deepest level, the whole myriad of limiting beliefs, thought patterns, habits and stresses that go with imposter syndrome melt away.

I’m not sitting in an ivory tower on this. The night before Dare to Dream Bigger was due to go to the printer, I deleted the manuscript. Properly deleted. “Who am I to publish a book on the ‘inside work’ for changing the world?” Obviously, the fact that so many of you gorgeous Passionate World Changers have read it means I did my work on myself and then found a copy on my backup drive. But it doesn’t mean that imposter syndrome experience wasn’t life-flooringly real.

Imposter syndrome affects us all, if we’re stretching a comfort zone, if we haven’t done that identity-level inside work, first.

But most of us pretend it’s not there. In fact, it’s one of the very last blocks to go, when you’re working on your personal development.

I don’t want you to have to risk dreaming big, but playing small, just because of imposter syndrome.

So I’m running a masterclass for you, next Thursday (2nd August) at 3pm UK time, on the six steps to ditching imposter syndrome – once and for all. The beauty of these six steps is you can use them for the deep-dive self-work to clear out your hidden blocks, or you can run through them in sixty seconds, right before you go on stage.

If you’d like to bag your place and get the link to join us live (or to get the replay), let me know now:

Imposter Syndrome Masterclass

Learn the six steps to setting yourself free from dreaming big, but playing small - in this interactive live training with Clare Josa.

And I’ll send you a few useful imposter syndrome quick fix tips between now and the masterclass, plus a pre-session workbook, so you can get started already.

I’d love to get to share this with you.

x Clare

Clare Josa

P.S. The absolute best way to set yourself free from imposter syndrome is small-group or one-to-one work. If you’ve had your ‘basta-moment’ (see page 88 of Dare to Dream Bigger or search ‘favourite Italian word’ in the Kindle version) with imposter syndrome and want to find out how quickly we could shift this, together, book a chat with me here.

6 Simple Steps To Moving Beyond ‘Surviving’ & Falling In Love With ‘Thriving’

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Here's instant access to the replay of this masterclass. In it I take you through the six simple steps I had to follow earlier this year, to take myself from 'surviving' back to falling in love with 'thriving'.

You'll try each step on for size, learn the key steps you need - and get a chance to win a one-to-one breakthrough session with me, which is usually £395.

Let me know your answers to the questions, via the comments.

x Clare

The doors are now closed for the 2018 summer school. But if the topics in this training resonated with you and you'd like to work one-to-one on them, here's where to find out more about how we could work together.

x Clare