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Important EU VAT Update: What Happens To VATMOSS & The New Thresholds After Brexit?

Remember the €10k threshold and sub-€100k simplifications we negotiated, which come into effect on 1st January 2019? Well, we’ve had confirmation from the EU Commission that UK microbusinesses will get to keep them for a whole 88 days. Here’s what will happen to VATMOSS and the new thresholds after Brexit.

This video is a really important update from the EU VAT Action Campaign team – one I had hoped I would never have to record.

Please spend a few minutes watching it and then follow the guidelines below this video to write to your MP. Please share this post far and wide in any microbusiness groups you’re part of.

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Guidelines For Writing To Your MP:

For the letter to your MP, please ask them to ensure we keep the current €10k threshold, the sub-€100k simplifications and the VATMOSS system during the transitional period, with a view to finding a permanent, workable solution.

The 3 Ps: please keep your letter:

Polite – even if they think Brexit is a fab idea, they have to help you and are more likely to do so if you keep it polite.
To the Point – one side of A4.
Personal – telling them how this affects you, your business and your family.

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Thank you!

x Clare

Author of Dare To Dream Bigger | Mentor to Passionate World Changers

Did You Know That ‘Gratitude’ Can Make You Feel Worse?

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This super-common gratitude mistake can actually make us feel worse – yet nearly all of us are doing it.

Find out how to spot it – and how to avoid it – plus some ninja-tips for taming your inner critic on your passionate world changer journey:

And when you’ve watched this, I’d love to hear from you, via the comments:

Do you ever find yourself falling into this trap?
How does it feel to turn it around and imagine taking action from a place of feeling confident and empowered?
What could you do, in the next 24 hours, to put this into practice?

x Clare

Clare Josa | Author of A Year Full Of Gratitude

P.S. Not got your copy yet? Get A Year Full Of Gratitude here. And make sure you join the readers’ club to get the incredible deep-dive resources that are waiting for you there. x C.

How To Handle Haters When You Want To Change The World

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Fear of haters and trolls is one of the biggest barriers to stepping up and turning our dreams into reality – from making the difference we are really here to make. Want to know how to handle haters, without having to ‘toughen up’ or develop a ‘thicker skin’?

Maybe it stems from childhood. Maybe it’s the product of a well-trained inner critic. Maybe it comes from seeing trolls holding parties on news website comment threads. But fear of haters and trolls keeps us stuck, dreaming big, but playing small.

The thing is, we need to have strategies to be able to hold our own, especially if our world-changer mission has us going ‘right’ when everyone else is going ‘left’. If your Big Message doesn’t bring you at least a sprinkling of grumpy people, it probably isn’t potent enough.

So today’s video takes you through five steps to handling your fear or haters and trolls, including lessons I learned back in the EU VAT Action Campaign days and in the past few weeks, trying to negotiate a light touch for micro-businesses this year with GDPR.

I have had so many trolls this past few weeks.

And I’m hoping my 5-step process will help you, too.

How To Handle Haters When You Want To Change The World

Once you’ve watched the video, I’d love to know:

How have you experienced haters & trolls on your Passionate World Changer journey?
What has worked for you in the past?
Which of these 5 techniques resonate with you – and what could you do, today, to put it into action?

x Clare

Clare Josa, Author of Dare to Dream Bigger & Ditching Imposter Syndrome

P.S. Imposter Syndrome is another massive barrier to stepping up to make a bigger difference. Over 1,000 people so far have watched my Ditching Imposter Syndrome Masterclass and are using it to make a difference in their own lives, so they can step up to lead a bigger change in the world. Want instant access? Watch my Imposter Syndrome Masterclass now.

Why Time Management Doesn’t Work – Are You Getting In The Way Of Your Productivity?

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People often ask me how I get so much done. I’m not a genius – I’m just like you – but I know that traditional ‘time management’ doesn’t work any more. It’s twenty years since I taught my first time management course, in my first engineering job, and I now realise it was all back to front.

I recently did an interview with Sanebox.com as part of their Productivity Giants series and we talked about how classic time management techniques can fall apart. In fact, my 15+ years of mentoring entrepreneurs and passionate world changers have shown they can actually make things worse.

In this video I spill the beans on a really common reason that this happens – and the self-mentoring questions you can ask to get through this, to crank up your productivity and make breakthrough progress towards your dreams and goals:

I’m curious:

Have you been ‘getting in your own way’ with overwhelm, distractions and procrastination?
Where were you on the 0-100 commitment scale?
How does that change, when you uncover the secondary gain that had been keeping you stuck?
What actions might you take, in the next 24 hours, to turn that around?

I’d love to hear from you, via the comments.

Want More?

Make sure you have taken my 5-day Ditching Overwhelm Challenge.

Plus you’ll find inspirational how-to for secondary gain, ditching self-sabotage, cranking up your commitment and taking the inspired actions that lead to breakthroughs, not burnout, in Dare to Dream Bigger: get your copy of Dare to Dream Bigger here.

And if a secret dose of Imposter Syndrome is what’s keeping you stuck at the lower end of the commitment scale, make sure you join me for this live masterclass to get you ditching Imposter Syndrome, once and for all: Imposter Syndrome Masterclass.

x Clare

Clare Josa, Mentor to Passionate World Changers

How My Favourite Lazy Yoga Pose Can Boost Your Productivity

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… And you don’t have to turn your legs into a pretzel!

I recently did an interview for Sanebox.com as part of their Productivity Giant series and in it I talked about how my favourite lazy yoga pose is a brilliant way to press ‘reset’ if you’re drowning in distractions and overwhelm is your new best friend. Here’s why it helps you and step by step how to make it work for you:

I’d love to hear how you get on with this!

I’m curious:

How do you handle distractions and overwhelm?
Do you ever find yourself procrastinating, in order to avoid the inspired actions that might feel secretly scary?
How does using makarasana – the crocodile pose – help you to feel calmer and more resourceful?

Let me know, via the comments!

Want More?

And if you’d like more help with this, make sure you join my 5-day challenge on How To Ditch Overwhelm. Plus there are loads of how-to strategies in Dare to Dream Bigger that can really help.

x Clare

Clare Josa, Mentor to Passionate World Changers