What a day!

Woke up at 5 this morning to a fluffy cat licking my nose. I said hello to her then she shook as hard as she could and sprayed both me and Stan with rain water until she was absolutely certain we were awake. Stan went back to sleep but I couldn't as I had to be up at 5.30 for a meeting scheduled to start at 7. Got up, had a shower, did my make-up and hair then got suited and booted. Set off to Birchwood where I was meeting with 39 other local CEO's and Directors for a networking breakfast. Found the Centre with no issues but broke my sat nav as I took it out of the charging slot!! Arrived in plenty of time and met a very interesting man in the car park and we walked in together. Introduced myself and made some new contacts then left at 9 as I was meeting Amanda from Koogar in the cafe downstairs to go through some social media info. The WiFi didn't work in the Starbucks so Amanda followed me to my house which is also my office. Not sure what she thought of it here as it is school holidays so I'd got a stroppy teenager monging in her bedroom with her mobile firmly glued to her ear and a 9 year old playing on his XBox in the bedroom right behind my office. Logged in and had 15 emails waiting for my return so we got what we had to do out of the way, Amanda then left to get to her next appointment and I cracked on. Managed to secure some new business, get some unfinished business closed off and firmed up 4 appointments for next week. Amanda is fantastic, I have so much respect for her business capabilities and I admire her as a person so didn't have any issues bringing back to base. A really productive day although it is now nearly 7.30pm and I am flagging a bit. My teenage daughter brought me a ham sandwich at around 2 this afternoon otherwise I probably would have forgotten to eat. Not sure if I could have survived all day on the bacon butty and orange juice that I had first thing at the breakfast event. Stan is wonderful, he walked in with a bunch of flowers and a kiss then proceeded to go downstairs to get dinner on for everyone. I may just grab a cuppa and hit the hay!

Friday

Well it's Friday morning, I slept like a baby and am now ready to face my day. Youngest has just left for school and said he was unsure if he was supposed to be in as someone had swine flu!!! Me being me told him to get on his way and if that was the case he is to come home... I have a review meeting at 11 with one of my favourite clients in Haydock and then another in Liverpool at 1pm so, many calls to make inbetween those appointments. I am researching Intellectual Properties for a client in prep for their marketing campaign. Also because it's Friday my husband needs to go to Leeds straight from work to collect our daughter from school as she is home for the 7 week holiday as of today so I want to get the house tidy and a good meal cooked as a thank you for saving me the trouble of having to drive all that way. I hate driving these days, not sure why as I used to love it! I am trying to figure out how to put my logo into my Outlook signature and can't seem to do it??? May have a quick play with that and see if I can come up with anything. Happy Friday everyone.

Juggling?

At 36 years old and being a mother of three when I suggested to my Mum that I was at the point in my life when I wanted to establish my own business instead of working my little socks off for 'the man' she replied with "you must be mad". I launched in April of this year with no confirmed clients and no real ideas about accounting, book-keeping etc. All I really knew about was what I am good at and that is networking which in all of it's entirity is 'Sales'. I set up a Sales Service and when people ask what I do I reply with "all things sales". As the title suggests my life involves a huge amount of juggling. I have a 17 year old son with Aspergers, a 15 year old daughter and a 9 year old boy. A husband that if I'm honest is very good at what he does for a living but is no use to me at all as far as the business is concerned (I do love you though). I am a community governor and represent young people with special educational needs. Today from 9 O'clock this morning I was in a grievence hearing for one of the local schools which finished at just gone 12 O'clock. I then had to rush to the supermarket as I had promised a group of young people cakes for their afternoon tea with the Mayor of St Helens which started at 1.30... In between my meeting this morning and afternoon tea with the Mayor I had to firm up 2 appointments for next week and placate a client that is a little bit more demanding than most. My husband and I are also in a scooter club as we ride vintage scooters and haven't quite grown out of the mod scene just yet so I had to confirm that we would be helping out with the fun day this weekend whilst I was walking around the supermarket looking for cream cakes. After the fun of this afternoon I then returned to my office where I picked up the emails that were waiting for me. Every single one of them needed some form of action before I could move them to their relevant folders. I have written my to-do list for tomorrow and am now going to enjoy a cup of tea and a cuddle on the sofa.