New Year, New Inspirations...

Have you made your new years resolutions/s yet? Are they in tatter's already?

This year I resolve to keep breathing so I can enjoy the odd (and not so odd) Red wine, follow my favourite football team - Chelsea FC - playing on the world's greatest stage of the beautiful game, and building my business to the best of my abilities.

Now the red wine one is easy to follow so that's a win, Chelsea are leading the Premier league and may well have their best season in their 100+ year history - of which I have been privileged to follow about 39, so although they continue to frustrate, I claim that as a win as well, and of the third I am focused and determined to beat anything Murphy cares to throw my way. So I consider I've already won that fight before we even enter the ring. Better than that I am convinced my success will be built on back of your success for I see your success in the training I provide as a win as well.

So 4 nil to me then.

As I have mentioned in earlier post's I thoroughly enjoy training people to be the best Security officer's and Private Investigators they can be. That is a win when I help a more challenged student to succesfully pass the course/s and inspires me to keep my own learning going. At the moment I am working on a Business Management qualification in order to train that discipline as well.

I have learnt so much about business in setting up the DRM GROUP but the main thing that kept me going was the focus and desire to want to do it. Working for yourself is a minefield of never ending learning and challenges but it sure as hell beats working for some unknown face in Corporate seclusion earning mega millions off of my efforts. Sure, at the moment I can't quantify in terms of dollars the value of that feeling of independance, but I am sure I will figure that out when I am sitting on the balcony overlooking the Grand Prix track at Monaco or admiring the history and beauty of Venice from my Gondola - all paid for by my efforts, not some criminally inflated Lehman Brothers/Bear Sterns/AIG style bogus Bonus package that we then have to bail out with a political STIMULUS programme..

So if you are thinking of going solo in the business world, get on the net and search out some of the excellent sites available, like the morning coffee I must have my daily fix of
www.flyingsolo.com.au and www.smartcompany.com.au. They inspire and inform and if you log on for their daily e-mail's than you receive ongoing inspiration even when you are bogged down with other matters.

I am learning something everyday in business and take each step with some degree of trepidation, but then I did that working for some sour faced foreman or supervisor anyway so even that's a win.

My goals are acheivable and there for the taking. Are yours?

Do you know what, something just occurred to me, I have not been able to watch the television for the past month and I have therefore not seen the TV news or, in fact, have rarely heard the radio 5 second sound bite version of the same murder/mayhem/people killed in three car pile up trash. Further, the time not spent in front of the tv has instead been spent with my nose in a book of something I consider far more inspirational. And the effects of dropping that negative obituary driven war mongering political double speak that passes for national news has been a positive revelation.

Try it, you will not regret the change. Grab the remote and hit that big red off switch!!

Think long and prosper
Biggles