Diary of a startup

A busy start to 2010: Diary of a startup

Well I have to say I am not sure where the last 9 weeks have gone and it seems like it was only yesterday when I was wrapping presents and decorating the Christmas tree, now we [...]

Shine4Life – Reflection on 2009

Well what can I say – It is six months since I left full time employment and my life could not have changed much more! Firstly I am writing this article and ‘start up’ blog twice [...]

Computers are the way forward… aren’t they?

If you have been following my last few articles you will have quickly realised that my IT skills are nothing to write home about. Actually a single celled Amoeba would have more success than me at [...]

Getting used to no routine

Wow what a change! – from a strict routine of, up at 5, gym by half past and at my desk by 7 , to freedom, time, space and the ability to waste a morning watching [...]

Working 9-5 – not anymore!

Growing up was non-conventional and certainly an experience, moving from 47 degrees to minus 20 was a memorable occasion but a realisation at a tender age of 5 that the world was a huge place! My [...]

There’s no business like snow business!

This was going to be an article about how there had been a slight slow start for the New Year for some of us – especially those boringly like me that were struggling to overcome flu [...]

Fear the military and do it anyway!

Lessons from a military fitness boot camp survivor! Hi readers, some light relief for you all amid the credit crunch on these darkening nights. I took some time out recently from my normal business routine and [...]

Diary of a startup: Prune & Reflect … part 2

Well continuing the pruning theme, I’ve finally shifted and streamlined my paper mountain! – the skip has now been removed – and re-emerged blinking into a brave new and leaner world – slightly scary actually. Now [...]

Diary of a startup: Prune and Reflect

Whether or not you have been lucky to escape on holiday and leave this dismal UK Summer behind you, as we settle back into an early Autumn – and for me with that lingering post-holiday minimalist [...]

Diary of a Startup: Sun bed perspective

I lie here on my sun bed in Spain soaking up the sun while relaxing by the pool and reading those women’s magazines – as we all do – profiling all those inspirational career change stories [...]