Acknowledge your wins

This has been a strange and challenging year for so many women entrepreneurs across the continent, and indeed around the world. Plans carefully formulated at the beginning of the year with big ambitions and goals have had to be re-engineered, relaunched and sometimes even scrapped. It has been a time of reinvention, pivoting, and in many cases just getting through with the hope of better times ahead. So as we now move into the final quarter of the year, it is the perfect time to take a moment to acknowledge your wins - to list down the positive things you have achieved in your business and your life as an entrepreneur over these difficult past months. List them all, starting with the big achievements. Perhaps you won or indeed maintained a big corporate customer, or pivoted the business to meet changing market needs, in turn creating a new, much needed product or service that customers want to buy. Also list the small achievements - maybe a new skill learned, or an award won - they are just as valid in these tough times. Hopefully by the time you have completed your lists, you will be able to take a moment to reflect just how far you have actually come, and how resilient both you and your business have become as a result of this experience.