Stocktaking pause

The term one step forward and two steps back seems current and its good to know that it will only be a passing phase. A few health concerns and family issues are certainly easier to come to terms with as you start to get past them, but I don't think a blog is the place to discuss anyway.

Had intended to start a Business course this very week but a slow build up of Hypertension has meant a postponement of activity. As a consequence, it has opened up more options, as I discovered at Newcastle City library just yesterday.

For comic affect, my dad used to say "as one door shuts another one clashes"  but on this occasion a mixture of Newcastle Enterprise culture and just being in the building meant I picked up on some new websites when really I thought I was there for a mentoring update.

"Are you over 50 and looking to start your own business", said the wall mounted A4 sheet. Well I'm sure that if I trawled the web I would find lots more local other brands that were available but this just felt like right place, right time.

Everybody needs a starting point and its easy to get dragged off in different directions with a lot of well intentioned information that tends to confuse the issue and put the cart before the horse.

Basically, to avoid Hypertension, among other practical solutions, I need a structured Business course, reasonably local and with a proven record of successful applicants that went on to challenge the world and Alan Sugar. (Good luck with that then!)

Confidence keeps cropping up as a key element in the process. As daunting a challenge as Business and Self Employment may be, unless you have faith in your skill sets you may well be barking up the wrong tree. Test the water with introductory courses to see if it's for you. If confidence is an issue, you are not alone in thinking this way.

Septober Song.....

Its October and its now officially autumn with a blanket of leaves already forming in my garden.

Back inside, things have been warming up nicely in the Self Employment stakes, informed sources are helping me with some Photo Restoration markets (can't say too much "loose lips, sink ships etc") my website is making progress and three agencies are helping me move forward with promotional details and the like.

A local institution by the name of Newcastle Enterprise Club have been extremely helpful, first of all by approving of my work and by putting me in contact with another agency, PNE to shoot me off in another direction. No, no, I'm not complaining you understand, but I must keep my feet on the ground & occassionally take a couple of aspirins for what is going on around me.

My Photosmith Creative page on Facebook is getting more images donated to its various albums and I now have a 2yr lease on a domain site and a Business card that even I'm impressed with

Its definately a bit premature on the basis of the website being 'work in progress' but I hope it's the start of better things. Onward & upward.