3 Years Later

Three years since my last post! I must get better at this!!!

So much has happened since my last post. Most of it contradictory to it's content!!!

Where do I start?

The remote diary manager quit after about 18 very successful months. My best two years ever. He went on to focus on his other business interests and is very happy with his life.

My office assistant has quit this week after 4 years. She had been on maternity leave since May and had just returned to work. She asked if she could work from home and we were trialling this. But due to family commitments she felt she couldn't continue. This was actually for the best as the homeworking was not working for me!!

I ended up with two advisers joining me after our host company resigned last christmas. They have both since moved on. One of them has semi retired and I look after his clients. We had a very productive meeting today.

I also now look after a local college pension scheme and have a number of potential clients amongst the staff. So that's working well at the moment.
I'm now competely on my own and to be honest it feels good! I'm totally in control and know that everything will be done my way!!

Let's see where that takes me!

Onwards and upwards!!!

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My life in business

The first thing to mention is that, despite it being two and a half years since my last post, I am very much still in business.

In my last post I wrote optimisticaly about my new office and future plans. One of my goals was to find some help in the office. I am now fortunate to be having the bulk of my paperwork being done for me. I also have a remote worker managing my diary and booking my meetings. This leaves me free to actually carry out the business.

I decided against taking on other advisers. It would prove more hassle than was worth. I've got a great working routine going on and only want to disturb it if its worth my while.

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Update

Great news. My office is built. The flooring is being laid on thursday and it's being decorated next week. The phone line is now live and all I need is a connection and Broadband and I'm in!!

I've now been in a temporary office for exactly two years. The term "Temporary" is to be taken loosely.

New business is building up a head of steam. My next challenge is to get up to full speed and then get some staff.

It's going to be a busy year!!!

Lets Hope so

I've never been able to understand why January is such a slow month for me. I come back from the Christmas break, full of good intentions, ready to take on the world and find myself in a sort of limbo land. No one seems to be switched on until the second week in January, when things tend to start getting back to normal.
I've spoken to several adviser friends and they all appear to be in a similar situation. I suppose it's a good time to get up to date with paperwork ect. and get planning for the coming year. I have every confidence that tthis is going to be a landmark year for me. I should be in my new office in the next few weeks and I can settle down to business with slightly less distractions!!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

This is my first official day back at work after the Christmas and New Year holiday. I have popped in to the office a couple of times but I didn’t seem to get an awful lot done. It’s been far too cold here to think straight. I’m in a temporary office at the moment awaiting the completion of my new extension. I will then have a separate office at home which will make things a whole lot easier.

My goals for this year are-

1. Get new office completed and fully up and running as soon as possible.


2. Get a professional website for my business and explore online business opportunities.


3. Employ a professional assistant. Especially to manage my diary and client banks. Leaving me with more client facing time.


4. Employ 2 new advisers to service some of my client banks and generate additional revenue.

I will post my progress in these areas as I go along.

I'm just coming to the end of my third year in business. It's been the most trying three years of my life. Not only because of the new business, my personal life has experienced more than it's share of turbulence. Things are now on a pretty even keel so it's time to buckle down and take things to the next level.
I'm reading "Anyone can do it" by Sahar and Bobby Hashemi. It was delivered yesterday by Amazon and I'm just about half way through it. It is a guide to starting a new business and they use their own start up company Coffee Republic as an ongoing case study. All in all a very good read.

I'm in the process of writing a business plan for next year. I wrote one when I first started the company but I've just drifted along for the last two years. It's time to focus.