Comments on: Um, hello…

By: focalplane

focalplane — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:32:45 +0000

While this cannot be true for everyone, there is a belief that if you are not having fun doing what you do, at least some of the time, you are not doing the right thing by yourself.

There are days when work is the best thing in the world, when ideas come to fruition, when praise and thanks come from unlikely sources, when you don’t want to stop what you are doing for fear the magic will come to an end.

Live for those days!

Call when you feel like it! Not sure about the tea, though!

By: catnip

catnip — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:40:14 +0000

@anon unless I’ve misinterpreted your comment, you’re implying that one needs a sense-of-humour/fun bypass to run a business.

What a dull world you must live in.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:47:47 +0000

@dp You’re right there. I think I might have been a bit too defensive in the past though, celebrating my wacky maverick-ness and that which has led to some appalling time management habits and a real lack of focus. I think it’s time to let a bit of sensible business thinking on board now to tidy things up and free me so I can move forward and do even more interesting and wacky things. ;)

By: dp

dp — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:26:27 +0000

I did a metapod thing a few years back and got a groovy zippered ring binder from it. Plus some useful observations about timing, preparation and so forth. It gave me specific things to keep an eye on.

In the time since I have noticed that succesful independent operators pick and choose the bits that suit, rather than attempting to absorb and reflect all of the standard advice. Put another way, it pays to defend one’s quirkiness.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:46:18 +0000

@anon Yup. Weird, huh?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:30:06 +0000

‘sirius-blog-is-sirius’

And you run a business you say ?

By: SM

SM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:03:43 +0000

There’s always a cup of tea waiting for you chez Miller !

By: Andrew Luke

Andrew Luke — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:27:47 +0000

As said above, so let it be above. Lots of linctus.

Hoping you pop into Bennetts Friday night, or can sms me over the weekend. tk care mate x

By: Adrian McEwen

Adrian McEwen — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:59:09 +0000

Good luck with it all. I can completely understand the inability to know whether or not things are financially viable – I’ve been trying to work that out through trial-and-error for a while now, and my results have been mostly error :-)

I think it’s what they call focusing on working in the business rather than on the business. I’d be interested to hear about what you learn, if you aren’t too busy to write about it… ;-)

By: Marv

Marv — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:12:52 +0000

I wish we were around to drag you out for walks and cups of tea.

By: brenda

brenda — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:07:40 +0000

Even the most consistent of bloggers have the occasional hiatus. Welcome back.

By: sue

sue — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:46:45 +0000

Hope the cold gets better soon. Can only recommend yoga for the immune system, and of course, real food.

Hope the course goes well. Take the best of other people’s tips and learn from their and your experience. But don’t forget that whatever you have that is unique to you is what got you where you are now. So trust that too and don’t let it get lost in the process.

To all things there is a season. Good friends will always be there, if they are good friends.