Well what a week that was, I must have been through every emotion on the planet. Being your own boss is a constant learning curve and if you think you know all the answers my advice would be to get out now while you still can.
The facts are, none of us know just how things will always pan out, even if we plan everything right down to the smallest detail, there is still a margin for error. That said it served a great purpose for me in particular. Having been brought almost to my knees with the workload, I have decided to take my life back. This coming week I will downsize some of the work we do and streamline the whole operation, sometimes less is more and in this case less is definitely good for my health. There is a limit to what one man can put up with and I came to that limit and beyond last week I don't mind saying. Is there any shame in stepping back?. Well to me it makes good business sense and even more self preservation sense, but to the outside it may look like we are closing certain parts of the business because we are on the slippery slope. There is of course no way I can stop the rumours as we are located in a very rural town but it's something i am prepared to do to regain my sanity and THAT is what this is all about.
It seems to me that despite all my aspirations in business I am losing the race because of the pace and i want to get back to the writing i so enjoy but get to do on a far too an irregular basis, I wish to spend more of my life exploring the wonderful literal world and do what so many of my good friends have been telling me to do for years and that is use my brains instead of my brawn.
Life is very short, but it can also be very fulfilling if you just dare to stop the band wagon, get off and look around. I have been running at such a ridiculous pace I have achieved very little other than try and make myself ill, clever uh?.
So, as i am writing this I am preparing to go off to the seaside with my beloved kids, the one thing in my life so far I have done right. We are going to sit and lounge around all day, something totally alien to me but I know if I try I am sure I can get a taste for. As for the business?, well yes it's busy but i will work through that in a timescale that is realistic and one that we are all capable of.
If I sound like a different man on here to those that know me then well, perhaps I may just be. I may just have realised what is really important in life and it's certainly not working myself into an early grave.
One last thing before I go for a lovely Sunday of God's making. A big thanks to all my true friends out there who tried so often to get me to change my ways, i have eventually listened and without your dogged persistence I may not have survived to tell the tale, I will love what you did for me forever, I look forward to chatting with you all an awful lot more in the future.
If you find yourself in the same boat and recognise some of my symptoms, do what your friends tell you, they are the ones who see you from the outside and as such know you best.
Enjoy your Sunday folks, I sure as hell will x
The facts are, none of us know just how things will always pan out, even if we plan everything right down to the smallest detail, there is still a margin for error. That said it served a great purpose for me in particular. Having been brought almost to my knees with the workload, I have decided to take my life back. This coming week I will downsize some of the work we do and streamline the whole operation, sometimes less is more and in this case less is definitely good for my health. There is a limit to what one man can put up with and I came to that limit and beyond last week I don't mind saying. Is there any shame in stepping back?. Well to me it makes good business sense and even more self preservation sense, but to the outside it may look like we are closing certain parts of the business because we are on the slippery slope. There is of course no way I can stop the rumours as we are located in a very rural town but it's something i am prepared to do to regain my sanity and THAT is what this is all about.
It seems to me that despite all my aspirations in business I am losing the race because of the pace and i want to get back to the writing i so enjoy but get to do on a far too an irregular basis, I wish to spend more of my life exploring the wonderful literal world and do what so many of my good friends have been telling me to do for years and that is use my brains instead of my brawn.
Life is very short, but it can also be very fulfilling if you just dare to stop the band wagon, get off and look around. I have been running at such a ridiculous pace I have achieved very little other than try and make myself ill, clever uh?.
So, as i am writing this I am preparing to go off to the seaside with my beloved kids, the one thing in my life so far I have done right. We are going to sit and lounge around all day, something totally alien to me but I know if I try I am sure I can get a taste for. As for the business?, well yes it's busy but i will work through that in a timescale that is realistic and one that we are all capable of.
If I sound like a different man on here to those that know me then well, perhaps I may just be. I may just have realised what is really important in life and it's certainly not working myself into an early grave.
One last thing before I go for a lovely Sunday of God's making. A big thanks to all my true friends out there who tried so often to get me to change my ways, i have eventually listened and without your dogged persistence I may not have survived to tell the tale, I will love what you did for me forever, I look forward to chatting with you all an awful lot more in the future.
If you find yourself in the same boat and recognise some of my symptoms, do what your friends tell you, they are the ones who see you from the outside and as such know you best.
Enjoy your Sunday folks, I sure as hell will x
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