Ross Hyslop Counselling & Coaching Service .

22/04/2025

https://thecaninecopywriter.co.uk/adhd-business-doing-things-differently

"What I thought was laziness or being disorganised was actually just ADHD showing up in ways I didn’t recognise."... if that resonates, here's what you can do about it.

22/04/2025

Tomorrow evening, I am hosting a Guest Expert session inside Charlotte Perrott’s Canine Marketing Support membership.

The focus for this session is - Breaking through visibility barriers: A behaviour change approach to marketing your Pet Business because 👇

You can have the best content plan in the world… and still not post.
You can know exactly what you want to share… and still stay quiet.
You can have all the templates and ideas - and still find yourself stuck, unable to post as often as you want to (or feel you should be).

It’s not just about strategy.

There’s a whole behavioural and emotional layer at play: your energy levels, your current capacity, your circumstances, your inner thoughts, fear and past experiences.

Let’s be honest - ideas alone aren’t the problem anymore

The barriers are often much more personal, quieter and less obvious; they're the beliefs running in the background - the ones you rarely say out loud, but feel every time you try to post.

Things like
Worrying about sounding too professional or not professional enough
Worrying about what other people are thinking
Feeling like if you can’t do it perfectly, or consistently you might as well not do it at all

But also practically, how do you squeeze it in whilst juggling client sessions, reports, driving between sessions and having a whole life outside of your business. Especially when you’re juggling all of that and dealing with the part of you that wants every post to be perfect.

I am really looking forward to this session, not because I've cracked it perfectly (that’s the whole point) but because when I do fall behind on content I have strategies to come back to.

This is one of many important conversations that need to be had about running businesses in a world full of noise, pressure, and unrealistic expectations about how we should be doing things in business.

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