Focus

Dear reader :)

I hope on reading this you are as well (if not better) than I am today. I awoke with a real sense of excitement, I wish I could pin point why but I can't exactly. I just felt elated with a sense of wanting to achieve things. Unfortunately looking out the kitchen window as I write to you the weather doesn't seen to be in the same frame of mind. All morning it has schizophrenically jumped from clear blue skies with beautiful bright raze of sun shinning down on my herb garden to large billowing clouds of grey, gently spraying mist through the cool breeze which becomes more apparent with the lack of heat from the then cloud covered sun. The herb garden may be dampened but I shall not, not today.

Self awareness and the ability to manage yourself with this awareness is an important trait to have when starting a project on your own. Know your strengths and weakness, build a team around you that compliments you so as to enhance the strength of your team where by increasing your chances to succeed. The list goes on and on I'm sure. I will not claim to have the self awareness of a Buddha but do take some comfort in the fact that I have made mistakes and appear to have learnt from them. In this vain I have an understanding, which I hope you can appreciate, that when I feel very excited with so much adrenalin going through my blood stream, so much so there would not be a milli second of surprise if I took to flight right now, and have this yearning to achieve so much in one day, procrastination generally enters the room and sits right beside excitement on the feelings board. But I have much to do and am determined not to let procrastination beat me :)

So 2 days ago I sat and wrote out a rough business plan, so rough it makes Oliver Twist look like prince William but I got it out none the less. 7 pages of notes, what, where, when, why and how, through to the 5 P's, profit, people, promotion, product and property. It helped a lot. It made me ask myself questions I hadn't thought about before and have to answer them too :) Today take 2 factors into consideration 1. I'm in a want to achieve mood 2. Structuring a business plan is not the most exciting project in the world (for me :) ) I will put a structure to this business plan, clean my 7 pages of thoughts up like gathering a ball of dough and rolling it out flat ready for the purpose it was intended :)

Without further ado, keeping Mr procrastination at the door (outside the door) I shall sign off, hoping we all have a fun and productive day ........... just because it's a bank holiday doesn't mean you can't be productive :)

So we'll catch up soon