Finding your inner consultant is like taking a holiday without leaving home.

When I started running a business I didn't go on holiday. I thought that I didn't have the money or the time. When I finally did take a holiday I made a strange discovery. I discovered that a holiday actually gave me more time. When I returned many of the things that I had been struggling with had answers that I had previously missed because I had been working so hard on them. Solving a problem by taking it head on can work but often the answer is to go around it or to solve a different problem instead. You have the wisdom but you prevent yourself from using it. A holiday frees you up.

I was bought up with the ethos that the harder you work the better you will do, it certainly goes a long way but I think working smarter is more effective. I think this is the trick with holidays, when I return I apply my effort in just the right place so it is far more effective. The thing that interested me is that I had the knowledge of the right place to apply that effort all along but somehow I didn’t think of it. This is what I mean by “your inner consultant”, the wisdom that you have gained from experience and from all the books you have read. Most of us can’t go on holiday everyday so I started to search for ways to use this ability without actually going on holiday. This website is all about that search. Check out the Audio book to get a great overview of what I have found so far.


There is actually a great way to have a real holiday without leaving home. My partner and I call it a Mykonos holiday or a Paris holiday but you can name it after any place that you have had a wonderful time. This is what you do.

Choose a day on your calender when you don't have anything that you need to do. Block out the day and make sure all the chores, work and other stuff that you would usually do on that day are taken care of. Sort out any food the day before so that you won't need to do any cooking other that a quick 5 minutes putting things together. You can always go out to eat if that is what you would do on holiday. Put on the phone answering machine.

Now having set things up there is only one rule.You can only do stuff that you would do on holiday in the place you have chosen. No TV, no Internet, no phone calls. If holiday for you means spending the day in a café then do that, if it involves just siting in the sun do that. If you like to do more energetic things that is fine but remember the golden rule. You can only do stuff that you would do on holiday in the place you have chosen.

Please comment on your plans for a holiday at home.