Magic of Quiet Moments: Stress Free Glamping Business Success Checklist

This year, I'm embracing stress-free glamping business success with this checklist. If you bumped into me on the beach lately, or passed me on a dog walk, or even caught me pottering in my vegetable plot, you might wonder how I look so… peaceful. No headphones. No podcast. No audiobook teaching me something new about entrepreneurship, hospitality marketing, self-development, or the glamping industry.

This is the magic of quiet moments...

Just me.
And silence.
And honestly… It has been unexpectedly life-changing.

For years, I’ve been a champion of “making every moment count".

I think many of you know exactly what I mean.

When you run a business, a household, a creative project… or all three… you learn to layer your time.

A podcast while cleaning the kitchen.

An audiobook while doing accounts.

A webinar while cooking dinner.

A quick online course while folding laundry.

It’s productive. Efficient. Smart.

But what I didn’t notice was this… I’d filled up every pocket of quiet time in my life and slowly, I stopped hearing myself think.

I Started Allowing Silence In…

Recently, I read a piece that really struck me when someone admitted they’d stopped listening to anything while driving.

Instead, they were embracing total silence.

I realised I’ve been filling my space with noise, and it had been getting overwhelming… but not only in the car.

For me, it’s been:

• Walking the dog
• Visiting the beach in the early morning
• Planting seeds in my vegetable plot
• Driving between errands or site visits
• Doing typical tasks of a lifelong multitasking entrepreneur

For years, these have been prime “Task University” moments, or rather, Nature University, Dog Walk University, Veg Patch University.

I filled every silence with information and learning.

But over the past few months, something inside me shifted.

I started craving a little less noise.

More space.

More breathing room.

So I gently set the headphones down and started to invite the silence in.

At first, it felt… odd. My mind reached for its usual distractions. I felt the urge to catch up on a podcast or finish that audiobook.

But then something incredible began to happen.

The Eureka Moments Arrived

When you stop chasing new information, your brain starts growing with the information it already has.

Ideas bubbled up without me even trying.

New connections clicked for me while pulling weeds.

A long-standing business problem untangled itself while I was throwing a ball for the dog.

And one morning, knee-deep in compost, I had a full-body aha moment about a project I’d been stuck on for weeks.

It was then I discovered that silence doesn’t create emptiness… it opens a doorway.

It’s the same phenomenon as ‘shower eureka moments’.

When your mind gets a moment to relax in the shower, it rewards you with clarity, creativity, and those magical little ideas that seem to float in from nowhere.

Except they don’t come from nowhere.

They come from you… the part of you that you haven’t heard from in a while.

What Science tells us about the brain and those business eureka moments

Neuroscientists tell us that those brilliant “aha!” ideas that pop up while we’re walking the dog, stirring a pot of soup, or wandering through the veg patch aren’t random at all. They come from a beautiful partnership inside the brain.

First, the basal ganglia quietly take over the familiar, repetitive tasks… the things you can do on autopilot… freeing up mental space.

And once that space opens, the Default Mode Network (DMN) steps in. This is the part of your brain that lights up during daydreaming, reflection and imagination. It’s where insights spark, connections form, and creativity quietly unfolds.

So the next time you’re doing something simple and soothing, remember: your brain isn’t switching off… it’s switching over into one of the most powerful creative states you have available to you.

Why We Need White Space More Than Ever

We live in a world designed to fill every gap… with noise, content, updates, opinions, learning, shoulds, coulds, musts, and endless to-dos.

But creativity doesn’t thrive in clutter.

Self-awareness doesn’t grow in noise.

And calm certainly doesn’t come from multitasking our entire lives.

Your brain needs rest just like your body does.

Not just to sleep… but to have space.

Moments where you’re not consuming.
Not performing.
Not learning.
Not hustling.
Just being.

And those moments don’t take time… they give it back.

Your Gentle Challenge This Week

I want to invite you to try something that I’m doing too.

Leave the headphones behind.

Walk without input.

Drive in silence.

Sit in the garden with a cup of tea and no agenda at all.

Just notice what comes up for you.

Notice how ideas start joining hands.

Notice how your shoulders drop.

Notice that subtle sense of coming home to yourself.

You don’t always need more information.

Sometimes, what you truly need is the quiet space for your inner wisdom to surface.

Top Tips for Balancing Business Ownership with Stillness

Here are a few practical ways to bring more white space into your days… and more magic:

1. Know the busy moments where multi-tasking really helps.

It’s absolutely fine to pair running a retreat, unique hospitality or glamping business with low-brain-power activities, such as:

• Doing your accounts
• Cleaning a room
• Folding laundry
• Cooking simple meals
• Admin tasks

These moments make perfect companions to podcasts or online courses. Improving what you do and learning how to bust through a problem are essential for a business owner. What I’m trying to remind you to do is switch off occasionally.

2. Learn when it’s time to switch it all off.

When you’re:

• Walking in nature
• Sitting by the sea (when was the last time you did that?)
• Dog walking
• Gardening
• Watching the sunrise or sunset

…give yourself the gift of silence.

3. Protect your quiet time like it’s a precious jewel

Because it is!

4. Let quiet moments become creative moments.

Bring a small notebook for the ideas that inevitably arrive.

5. Pause before pressing play.

Ask yourself:
“Do I need more input? Or do I need space to digest what I already know?”

6. Remember: silence isn’t empty… It’s full.

Full of insights.
Full of clarity.
Full of calm.
Full of you.

Here’s to more silence in this noisy world.

I hope me sharing my own aspirations for the new year encourages you to create gentle pockets of quiet in your own life… on your walks, at the beach, in the garden, or wherever your soul feels most at home.

Magic doesn’t always shout.

Sometimes it whispers.

And you’ll hear it… when the world finally quiets down.

If you’re finding it difficult to get the quiet moments you need, maybe it's time to get a bit more help. Get in touch and let's have a chat.

Sarah

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