The celebrations and festivities are over now for another 12 months and I do hope that you have made sure you have something to celebrate in your business this coming year.
The success of your business in 2008 will be in direct proportion to the value you deliver to your clients. If you want to be successful and abundant in your business it cannot only be about you, it has to include adding value to other people's lives. A great inventor and philosopher, Buckminster Fuller, said "The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow."
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Margot Grantham, Regional Director Athena Edinburgh invited me to visit her members in Edinburgh this month. They meet at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society in Queens Street and the room we were allocated had the most wonderful views. I had the best of times with the ladies up there who exuded passion about their businesses and prompted Margot to write an article for the Athena Networking Muse.
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Just one year today Louise Heasman and I sat down with a bottle of champagne to finalise and register the name of our business network for women. So many considerations ...
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What many people don’t know about me and those who know me well would be shocked to know is that … I’m an introvert!
I don’t have a problem communicating with people (indeed I am articulate … some would say verbose in the use of the English language), I enjoy conversations, I love public places I’m just not as comfortable in new situations as I appear to be.
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