Sometimes, the only way to respond to adversity is to laugh. Yesterday morning I woke at 5.15am and drove 110 miles to attend a monthly management meeting with my support team. We normally start the meetings at 10.00am to allow for civilised travel but I was asked to attend early so that team members could
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Its not often I get a dose of this – I love the work I do and the people I work with – so why have I been attacked by the blues this morning? Ezine was written before 7.45am, podcast recorded before 8.15am and I’m now looking at 49 emails that arrived over the weekend
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Its quite funny really – my alarm call was at 4.15am this morning, so that I could travel to Edinburgh and deliver a presentation to a group of Scottish dentists that will include references to time management and the cliche of “work/life balance”. Life as a road warrior can be taxing and my plan for
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My local geek shop managed to reactivate the sick laptop yesterday afternoon and, hearing this, I rushed across the road under a steady rain storm and was whisked behind the scenes into the “room at the back” where a variety of PC’s and laptops lay with their insides hanging out – all rather like a
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Monday morning I make a 7 hour train journey to get to where I want to work this week. Normally I would drive 6 hours but I decide to reward myself with a train ride so that I can catch up on emails, ezine and have a chance to think. The financial argument is that
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I finished my travel for the week last night and I’m truly exhausted physically – but it has been a great week – Workshops in Leeds, Birmingham and Exeter and a practice visit and team session in Birmingham also. I’ve been focused on business planning and customer service in the delivery this week and its
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I want to order some photo paper for the Sony digital photo printer that prints from my Sony digital camera (I’m a Sony addict – laptop, projector, camera, phone – I’d drive a Sony car if they made them). I visit the Sony.com web site and find the paper but I cannot buy it because
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I’ve been writing my first ezine of the year this morning and reflecting on the changes I have made to my work schedule that will reduce the amount of business travel I suffer, the number of hotel rooms I have to stay in and allow me to spend more time on public transport and less
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and all the dental clients stopped answering mail, email and phone calls.Suppliers slowed down their deliveries. Every project was put “on hold” until after the holiday. “We’ll do it in January” became the mission statement for many businesses. However, I have a full week of work ahead of me before I take a 2-week break
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and all the dental clients stopped answering mail, email and phone calls. Suppliers slowed down their deliveries. Every project was put “on hold” until after the holiday. “We’ll do it in January” became the mission statement for many businesses. However, I have a full week of work ahead of me before I take a 2-week
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