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Unlocking Your True Potential: Embracing Action
Clarity & bravery mean nothing without action – even with clear vision and a solid plan on your side, you might still be getting in your own way.

Mark Franklin
Aug 193 min read


Mind the Gap: Bridging Self-Perception and Reality
If you 'become what you believe' (as the saying goes) these two self-esteem questions might help lead you to a better outcome.

Mark Franklin
Aug 123 min read


Our relationship with failure is a choice
Our relationship with failure is a choice – it is perspective based on a mixture of fact and/or emotion. Which do you choose?

Mark Franklin
Jun 242 min read


Imposter Syndrome is a bad habit
Imposter Syndrome is a bad habit. We have become so consistent in our belief that we're not good enough, we ignore the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Mark Franklin
Jun 102 min read


How to overcome perfectionism and keep your business moving forward
Struggling to overcome perfectionism as a solopreneur? Discover four practical strategies to stop ‘just right’ thinking from stalling your business progress and start sharing your work with confidence.

Mark Franklin
May 62 min read


What's the difference between failure and opportunity?
Failure & Opportunity are actually one and the same thing. The only difference is the point of view, or 'opinion', you give to each.

Mark Franklin
Jan 282 min read


Cover reveal - publishing February 2025
Cover reveal for "How to Embrace the Four Fears® of Business Ownership" - publishing February 2025

Mark Franklin
Jan 211 min read


Confidence = Bravery + Experience
If Confidence = Bravery + Experience, how can we lean into your existing examples of both bravery and experience to grow your confidence?

Mark Franklin
Dec 2, 20242 min read


Embracing Imposter Syndrome
'Embrace' is, perhaps, a surprising word choice but, before I explain the how, let me explain the why. Have you recently found yourself...

Mark Franklin
Nov 11, 20242 min read


Proof of how good you really are
"You don't deserve success" For the overwhelming majority of small business owners I worked with over the past twenty years - the key...

Mark Franklin
Oct 7, 20242 min read


Lawyer for the emotional defence
As your "lawyer for the emotional defence", I will prove, beyond reasonable doubt, how capable and brave you are / have been / can be.

Mark Franklin
Sep 9, 20242 min read


Four brave & brilliant personality types
Self-aware Sally is one of the four brave & brilliant personality types I talk about a lot - each has a varying level of clarity and...

Mark Franklin
Apr 15, 20242 min read


This is why I am not rich and famous!
This post might also include the most unpleasant picture you see today - sorry about that. Have you ever talked yourself out of an...

Mark Franklin
Apr 2, 20242 min read
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