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Change takes you out of your comfort zone, feels uncomfortable or risky, and so no matter how good your intentions are, you just can’t replace old habits. Well, here are some small changes you can make to help you stick with your intentions to create healthy new habits.

By creating a more efficient and effective way of operating, by having ‘flow’ in your business, it can help you scale, expand into new markets, increase your bottom line and generally feel happier about your business.

Personally, I look back with retrospect at a number of things – namely those that took prominence in my business plan for the whole year. Throughout my half year business review, I always look for what I can learn, improve upon or change completely.

There is more to storytelling for marketing purposes than ‘getting to know you’. Having a strategy underlining the stories you’re sharing and that all-important goal behind it, helps your story become effective at growing your network and consequently, your business.

So, can you break down the change you want into smaller steps and gradually stretch your comfort zone, rather than burst out of it? If you can it will help you see that each small step is achievable and before you know it, the desired change is comfortable as a whole, and a new habit is often then formed.

I use a daily journal to reflect back on the time I’ve spent during the day and connecting it with my high pay-off activities. This is how I end my day, drawing a line beneath business so I can move on with my personal time.