Thursday,
January 06, 2005
My Own Personal Mess
So I started this blogging thing some time in October. It's been quite
exciting putting up travel reports from a few of the places I visited
(Barcelona, Ibiza, Graz, Trieste, Cividale, Ljubljana etc.) and I
had an opportunity to include some of my own personal reflections.
But, as anyone who runs a small business can attest, sometimes
your work just grabs you and doesn't allow you to pursue what you
want to dedicate your attention to. My last 2 months since my return
from Austria have been consumed with reorganizing the office, setting
up a new accounting system, working out a sales and business expansion
strategy for this new year and dealing with various organizational
issues.
In addition to that, one of my key employees is relocating and
although we are losing her on site here, we'll try to set up a satellite
office in her new location. That will entail a whole new range of
planning and preparation. Over and above that, of course we have
to recruit and train a replacement for her locally. So it seems
that my work has regularly been interfering with my recreation.
That’s the life of the small entrepreneur. For a while my
stated goal has been to grow my business from the one-person solopreneurship
(with a network of international suppliers) that it was about 2
years ago, into a fully fledged business that has all business functions
professionally organized. That obviously means formalizing the customer
service function, the supplier management and purchasing function,
the accounting function (always a headache), the sales and marketing
function, administration and employee relations as well as strategic
long-range planning.
So while I am trying to transition over into a new field (becoming
an author – of a book on budget travel - and a web publisher),
my full-time responsibilities have definitely hampered the speed
of progress into my new endeavour. However, I am in the process
of goal setting for this coming year and I definitely want to dedicate
more time to researching and writing articles, interviewing travel
experts and other cool folks, doing some real-life traveling and
finally starting to write some of the actual chapters of my travel
e-book.
It’s finally time to put the pedal to the metal.
Related articles:
The beauty of a midlife
crisis - why I started creating this website
Reflections of a new writer
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