Here is my client Dr. Nigel Olesen (and my big yellow car), outside his newly acquired premises in Oxford.
They may not look fabulous at the moment – but wait and see!
I’ve worked with Nigel as a client for over 6 years and have seen his implant referral practice grow from strength to strength. Nigel is a great guy who loves golf, fishing, shooting, his Lotus and the delivery of world-class clinical skills to his patients. I enjoy his company and the way his mind works.
After literally years of searching, he has finally found a location in central Oxford and completes (fingers crossed) on the purchase later this week.
He plans to move premises to a brand new “state of the art” facility early in 2007 and on Monday I was invited down to:

• Facilitate a team meeting to consider, decide and act upon the marketing campaign that will launch the new business;
• Walk around the bare premises with a piece of chalk and mark on the floor which rooms will be where;
• Discuss with Nigel his overall business strategy for the next 3 years

Although this isn’t a profitable day by the standards of workshops and “gigs” – I loved it.
I get such a buzz out of being involved in start-up projects like this one – and I look forward to a “grand opening” sometime next year, when Nigel’s vision has become his reality.
One of those days when being a business coach is a blast.
I am delighted to receive my daily dose of inspiration from Story People:

Often, I write all day long with white ink on white paper,
late into the night, until it is all I can do to feel the letters curving to earth from the tip of the pen & then,
I fall asleep.
Dreaming of running, or maybe driving in a car the color of water & I wake the next day remembering nothing &
I gather the stack of paper & a pen of black on the desk in front of me &
the words begin to dance over the page like long legged insects across a still lake &
the words in white whisper behind & underneath the new day.
If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it:
the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. & there is nothing more to it than that.