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START-with-Gudrun! Is your chance to reduce your stress and to strengthen your resilience.

I am a member of the American Psychological Association (APA)

All my services are offered in English.

01/11/2026

If Sunday evening already feels like Monday, this is for you.

Psychologists call it perseverative cognition: your mind keeps rehearsing tomorrow's problems, and your body reacts as if they're happening now. It's worse when everything waits for you on Monday.

Tonight, write down the three things on your mind. Next to each one, write who else could handle it.

How much does your business depend on you? Take the free 10-question quiz: https://link.start-with-gudrun.com/quiz-fb

How many of your three could someone else take? Reply with 0, 1, 2 or 3.

31/10/2026

January feels like a clean slate.

Researchers call it the fresh-start effect: motivation really does rise at new beginnings. But it fades fast when the plan behind it rests on last year's habits.

That's why I start in November, not January.

Plan 2027 so your business doesn't depend on you – my free 3-part live workshop:
→ Thu 5 Nov: Look back before you plan ahead
→ Thu 12 Nov: Choose what matters in 2027
→ Thu 19 Nov: Build a plan that holds

18:00 CET / 17:00 UK / 12:00 ET, about 90 minutes each. Only 15 places: https://www.start-with-gudrun.com/collection/workshops/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=plan-2027

Know an owner who plans next year alone at 11 pm? Share this with them.

Live or replay: which would you pick?

30/10/2026

Writing down your goals changes almost nothing.

What works is an if-then plan. Peter Gollwitzer's research on implementation intentions shows that "If X happens, then I'll do Y" makes follow-through far more likely.

So not "I'll delegate more", but: "If someone asks me to approve something small, then I'll ask what they'd decide."

How much does your business depend on you? Take the free 10-question quiz: https://link.start-with-gudrun.com/quiz-fb

What's your first if-then plan for next week?

29/10/2026

If you're the only one who knows how things really work, your business has a single point of failure: you.

The Zeigarnik effect explains why it never feels finished. Your mind keeps every open loop you carry alone on standby.

One step this week: write down one process and give it away.

How much does your business depend on you? Take the free 10-question quiz: https://link.start-with-gudrun.com/quiz-fb

Which process still lives only in your head?

28/10/2026

Before you can change anything, you need an honest picture of where you stand. Not the version you tell clients, and not the one that keeps you up at night. The real one.

For many small-team owners, that picture holds a surprise: far more runs through you than you realised. Every decision, every question, every “quick check” lands on your desk, and it has happened so gradually that it feels normal.

This week, try three quick checks:

🔍 The decision audit: count the decisions you make in a day. How many truly needed you?
🏖️ The holiday test: if you were offline for a week, what would stop?
🧠 The single point of failure: what knowledge exists only in your head?

No judgement, no fixing yet. Just looking. Seeing clearly is already the first step towards feeling lighter, and still fully in charge.

👉 Which of the three checks surprised you most? Share it in the comments.

28/10/2026

If your team waits for you before they decide anything, this is for you.

Psychologists call it learned helplessness. When decisions keep getting taken back, people stop making them. It isn't laziness. It's learning.

The way out: hand back one decision this week, and don't take it back.

How much does your business depend on you? Take the free 10-question quiz: https://link.start-with-gudrun.com/quiz-fb

Which decision could you hand back first?

27/10/2026

Your 2027 plan will fall apart by February.

Not because you're lazy. Kahneman and Tversky called it the planning fallacy: we underestimate how long things take, even when we've been wrong before.

For owners of small teams it's worse, because every task in the plan still runs through you.

Plan with your real capacity, not your hopeful one.

My free 3-part live workshop, Plan 2027, starts on Thursday 5 November (18:00 CET / 17:00 UK / 12:00 ET). 15 places: https://www.start-with-gudrun.com/collection/workshops/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=plan-2027

How far off was your last plan? Reply with a percentage.

26/10/2026

You took a day off and your phone didn't stop.

If that's you, it's not a time problem.

Sabine Sonnentag's research shows that recovery depends on psychological detachment: switching off from work in your head, not just leaving your desk. If only you can answer the questions, you never get to detach.

How much does your business depend on you? Take the free 10-question quiz: https://link.start-with-gudrun.com/quiz-fb

On a scale of 1 to 10, how switched off were you on your last day off?

25/10/2026

How many decisions did you postpone this week?

Every open decision keeps using your mental bandwidth, even when you're not working on it.

A two-minute check:
1. Write down every decision you postponed
2. Mark the one that drains you most
3. Put a time in your calendar to decide it

Your list is longer than five? Book a free 30-minute Clarity Call: https://mycaly.io/s/SMITH-Consult/Clarity-Call

Which decision are you closing first?

24/10/2026

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