When work feels consistently hard, clunky, or draining, it’s rarely because the people involved aren’t capable. More often, it’s because the way the work is designed no longer matches reality. How can you fix that? How can you push and pull more ease into your marketing or workflows?

Every year I set myself a challenge to try and do most of my Christmas shopping as locally as possible. It can be time consuming and a fair bit harder than running around a shopping centre for a few hours, but it’s far far more rewarding. In this article I give you heaps of tips on how to save money, time and stress and still support local and small businesses through the silly season - for gifts, food, wine and more.

If like me you are searching for ways to help save our local small businesses, I have some ideas and I would love to hear yours. We have a real opportunity right now to make a difference to the lives and livelihoods of our community’s greatest assets.