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Cathartic SundayPosted on 30/3/2008 at 6:04 PM - Post CommentWell I have hired a business coach, one that specifically deals in hair salons. This thursday past I spent 2 hours with him doing an analysis on the business. It was frightening. There are so many aspects of the business that I have let slip and this was an eye opener.If I where to have done this analysis 12 months ago it would have been a different story. I would have rated fairly highly in most areas. Instead at the moment I rate poorly in almost all areas. Things need to change. I have set up a space at home dedicated to working on things for the salon. Trying to eliminate excuses why stuff can't be or isn't being done. Another thing I worked on today was starting to clean up my life...... No that doesn't mean I am going to stop drinking well aged single malt scotch, I need something incase I end up a bum on the streets. I started with the kitchen going through the food cupboard and just eliminating so much crap. I love to cook but just don't have the time or the inclination really anymore. Not to the extent I did anyway. I swear I through out enough spices to have supplied the local Indian takeaway for 12 months. I hate t say it but a bottle of curry paste is so much easier than mixing roasting and pulverising my own....... When I am either rich or retired, I will have time to play the gormand but for now simplicity is the key word. Over the next few weeks I plan to go through the house room by room and purge what ever isn't necessary. Like I have a wall 3 meters long and 1.8 meters high jammed with cookbooks.... They have to go.... In the garage I have ferilisers and power tools that I might have used once or twice, again when I had the inclination to get out there and have the hanging gardens of babylon, well the drought has fixed that, it's more like the Sahara ....... I think if any aspect of your life is out of control then it starts to affect the other parts. Sometimes you have to clean it all up and look forward. Now I will share as much about my business coaching experience as I can. Most of the stuff I can share, some I signed intellectual property agreements on and cannot pass on. Sorry about that. Anyway, I need to cook something for dinner, over the next couple of days I will talk about the 11 areas of the business we looked at last week. I have my next coaching session on the 11th of April so I will post an update after every session. Cheers All. Anthony
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