You've got a great idea and you're thinking that building a community around your idea would be a great fit .. but where do you start?
Often communities are launched without much background preparation, and many fail to thrive as a result. There are many useful resources out there to help you with starting, growing and managing a community - a few of which I'll outline below.
A question I am asked regularly by visitors to my blog is how I am able to be well while I am working full time, often long hours, and mostly at a computer screen throughout the day.
Living and working with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome can seem like an uphill struggle at times, but there are some simple ways in which I think employers can support staff with EDS to be well at work. I'll explore a few of my thoughts on this in this article.
I remember quite clearly, that moment when I saw a post on Facebook about the Runner's World Run Streak while I was contemplating the icy cold morning I was about to launch myself into in order to get to the gym for my 6am personal training session. 'That looks interesting', I thought, as I yanked on my leggings, mumbled something about early morning training sessions, and joined the Facebook group thinking I'd check it out later that day.
Little did I know, that decision I made on an icy cold morning in November 2017 was about to challenge me in more ways than I was ever expecting in the coming 40 days!
Something I come across time and again with businesses I encounter is a real lack of strategy when it comes to their marketing efforts. I myself am just as guilty - I wrote a simple strategy and had everything laid out in a rough sketch, but never bothered to refer back to it! So, why is it important to have a marketing strategy, and how do you build a business case for carving out the time each week to review and implement your strategy?
In the last few months I've had several people comment on how well I look, and how different that is to where I was even a year ago.
I'm probably physically and mentally the most well I've been in about a decade, but it's really easy to forget just how much work has gone into getting to this point, and how much work goes in to maintaining it.
The title should really be 'what are the Ehlers-Danlos Syndomes' as since 2017 there have been thirteen sub-types of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.