I have not had a holiday since last summer and I am absolutely shattered – mentally and physically. And so my partner (whom some of you met at UKInvestor Show) and I are off to Greece for a week or two – as a liberated woman employed by the State it is only fair that she pays. Naturally I shall write for a few hours a day but mostly this is swimming, walking & winding down. It’s time to think.
You have to learn your lessons and I know that I can have a tendency to take on too much and to just put in too many hours. In the end that destroys you physically and emotionally. That is a lesson learned. You cannot keep too many plates spinning forever. And so what is my thinking agenda? At a personal level? I shall keep that to myself.
At a work level it is working out how to do less. The UKInvestor Show went very well and I would hope to announce a venue and date for 2014 within the next week or so. But I have taken on a bird to drive that forward so that (especially with a 12 month run in not 4 months) it is less draining for me.
Real Man Pizza is now in the hands of the lovely Dominique and so I can now be very much a chef of last resort. We are hiring two cracking new waitresses who start next week and so I can just sit back, create the odd new recipe (last night it was the St George’s Day Pizza for next Tuesday) and enjoy the odd day in the kitchen when I fancy it.
And so to writing. A few gigs take no time at all and can be fun and make a few bob and so I am happy to carry on spending an hour a day on Spreadbet Magazine, 24n.biz and www.onefreesharetip.com – but what of the rest of my time? Historically my answer would have been “there are still another 23 hours to allocate” but that is not what I really want to do. There are a number of non work things that I want to do and so it is down to writing what I really enjoy. And that means:
I like working with Steve Moore and Lucian Miers on my Nifty Fifty premium product. Lucian and I recorded our first video the other day and it will go live in the next 96 hours. It was like the old days of EvilCast but on video and funnier. Meanwhile Steve and I had a long chat about a company the other day and so he is right now putting the finishing touches to our latest hot share tip which will go out early this afternoon. And so that is project one.
Project two is www.shareprophets.com – I am finding it very exciting. And frankly it is where I shall make the money need to pay the bills. Again it is good to be working with a great bunch of folks who do not need managing and who deliver a quality product. I can write what I want and so my next piece is a chance to have a pop at a board of a BB fave who seem to me to have behaved appallingly. So it is fun and it will pay the bills. And more and more writers contact me every day wanting to write for it. That is the really exciting thing about www.shareprophets.com – quality writers are flocking to the standard.
Of course it is free so if you have not registered yet please do so at www.shareprophets.com
And finally there is this blog. I have not written that much this week as I am just drained. But this is where I can really let rip. This blog was my sanity check last summer and although it makes sod all for me it is fun. And so as long as shareprophets pays the bills this is one of my fun distractions.
That leaves enough time for one other project at a time. The odd e-book, the odd Sefton type campaign. But also other non-work things.
Anyhow, enough from me. I fly Sunday. Before that the Tomograph will return as will the caption contest and there is a hot tip to polish off for the Nifty Fifty and a zillion other things to complete.
Thank you for reading
Tom