Posts Tagged ‘rainmaker’
Andy was back from his holidays today and looking tanned, healthy and relaxed, after his break. As expected he was also 'chomping at the bit', to get back into the swing of things. I had a meeting with a client first thing and then off to the office to catch up on the days emails….
I woke this morning with one central thought going through my mind you're only as good as the team around you. The team around you is the one you're building, so take responsibility and make it happen for the team! Such is the way my brain works sometimes! The team for any business is all…
Now that was a day, that was. I think I managed to experience the full range of emotions at different times during the day, I won't be sorry if I don't have a day like this again for a while, that's for sure! I spent quite a bit of the day catching up with the…
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I promised Mike Kirkham at today's ipatter breakfast networking event, that I would not talk about my ablutions in todays blog, I also promised others that Mike would certainly be getting a mention in the blog today. So there you go, I have today delivered on my promise on all fronts, how I wish that…
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I was up a little later than usual today and it felt good! I still managed to keep the routine going and got to the office in good time. I get so much done at that time in the morning. After a few e-mails and a few calls done, I settled down to the task…
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Day two of the induction today, so up in time to catch up with admin not completed yesterday because of unexpected distractions in the evening. All became well by 0800 and I was fully up to date and ready for Friday! I got to the office in good time and started going through the usual…
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Up early today, as I had booked a session at the gym in Norwich, it was a tough one and my legs are still quite sore from working out with Bobby yesterday morning, still anything that hurts that much, just has to be good for me, otherwise there's just no point in doing it!
After…
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Today I was up a little later than normal, as I had booked a session with Bobby, my tame Para! The session was the first for a couple of weeks, as he had been in Norway. The break had done nothing to mellow him and the session was hard! I staggered home 45 minutes later,…
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Up as usual shower, shave and other stuff and then off to Norwich for the most part of the day. It was quite in the office today, just Oli and I. We both had out heads down as there is much to do. It was, I have to admit, quite strange without Andy on the…
It was an early Kick off today in more ways than one. This was Andy's last day to tie up some lose ends before heading off on his holiday and I had tickets to go and see Norwich play Manchester City. So up early to try and get all the odd jobs done and get…
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