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Well this month I had to come back from my holiday camping at the beach for the Qld Leaders monthly meeting. Always a shame to interrupt a good holiday but unfortunately there wasn’t a day without an interruption, so was a break if not a holiday.
Being committed to the 12 month process, there was no option of not going.
Australia is a pretty wide and wondrous country, as we that live here know, and it has been some years since I had (read: made) the time to just go to places just because they exist. Generally these days I need to know it exists before I go there, and this is unfortunately a little true about the way many of us interact day to day in our personal and business lives.
We keep going over the same paths without stepping out into a new space to find alternate experiences (read: new ways to do what we do) .
My latest camping trip took me to Wardell, NSW. A wee town 18 km south of Ballina. Years ago I have blown past this spot without even knowing it existed and in honesty it does not show up much on maps. Friends were Grey Nomading there and invited a few of us to come down for a long weekend. (more…)
While on the annual holiday this year camping at the beach we met some great people from western Queensland, out in the wild dry west where life works in completely different ways.
I love the people you meet in any form of camping, and the things you learn about how other people live that help put your own life in perspective. One such story was about a game this couple played with their kids while doing the long drives from the country. I am sure many can relate to numberplate games including ‘the alphabet’ and ‘cricket’, even ‘I-spy’ until there is nothing left to spy, however this game was very simple.
well of course. and any owner of a business feels each price issue personally. but it is important to put price in perspective on what it is you are evaluating the price for.
there are always two sides to a price question, the price you charge for your services and the prices you wish others to pay you.
the longer i am in business the greater my ability to be able to afford goods and services as my business grows, but from day 1 the best price i ever get is the price of the best company to do the job, or the lowest price or the highest price.
this quote is something i saw in a supplier of mines business and i thought it very pertinent to business….as it was it was the company making our new camper trailer.
so i guess there needs to be some real camping stuff here. right now we are in the countdown to our annual camping holiday to the beach. we go - we park up - we camp - we relax. summer in Australia, camping by the beach.
getting ready involves the highly repetitive process of pretending you know what you are doing, looking at last years lists, trying to decipher all the great ideas you had that you planned to do all year long so you would be ready. And no matter how well you are organised and plan you never have them all done, somehow life just got in the way for 10 long months and now you feel the pressure of the immediacy of it bearing down on you.