Stop running and take a breather to take in what is happening...

I had never really thought about all the details that go into business at the same time. Even though I'm an accountant and business practices and procedures was part of my studies there. I didn't really realise just how much of it, I already use.

My tasks for the past 2 weeks, have been to come up with a business plan and set it out. This involves setting up your business structure, marketing plan and your financial plan. I worked on all 3 yesterday and came up with some interesting figures and facts. I'll be assemblying them altogether today and I think I may just have a pretty good business plan, but in my case. Bits4Babies.com has already been going for 3 years. So it was pretty easy to get the structure right, but the marketing and financial side of things amazed me. I'm glad I did that exercise. It just re-iterated where we were going and what we wanted to achieve.

That was just one of my tasks. The rest of the tasks will probably only get pulled into place properly over time, but I want to say this. The coaching that I'm receiving has already been invaluable. They keep up your confidence, keep your drive going and most importantly, they won't let you give up. Giving up is not a word I use often in my vocabulary, because I don't know what giving up is.

I have always been persistant and kept on going no matter what. That's who I am and the people that work with me, have kind of found that out. Sometimes, I steam ahead and they fall behind a little, this is when I try my very best to help them catch up with me, but I also know that I have to keep going ahead, so I try to slow it down a little. That is hard for me.

This business coaching is good and I can see many good things coming from it, but I really do need to keep my feet firmly on the ground and consider that there are other people that want to go as fast as me, but have to learn what I've learned to keep up. That is probably the biggest lesson I've learned this week. "Try and take a steady pace, so that others can keep up with you."

Well, I'll be beginning my week with more tasks to do, but with a fresh view on things. I'll keep you posted of what is happening.

I am so mad, it's unbelievable

Today I was reading through one of the marketing pages that I had signed up to and believe it or not, the copyright name caught my eye.... I noticed a payment had gone out of my account for this company and I couldn't quite place it, till I saw that copyright name.... Well, you can imagine, how I was starting to get.... They had charged me 3 times the amount they should have and to top it all off, their customer support is non-existant. I asked for their help over a week ago and still hadn't got a reply so, I'm guessing that I won't be getting the refund I asked for, but you know.

It makes me so mad, I could scream my head off at this. Here I am, a single mom with 3 kids, trying to make a living online and that is what I get for my effort. It really peaves me off that people go about ripping people off.

Well, the view I have at the moment is.... I will have the last laugh, because I won't be doing things underhanded. I will get to the top with pure determination. I am a fighter, I will make it online.... I'm well on my way to doing that already... so there, put that in your pipe and smoke it.

For the people that do read my blogs, I apologise for showing my real anger at the situation, but if I didn't do this, you wouldn't know that I am human and that I also have feelings.

For all the people that are out there trying to get ahead in the rat race online, I hope that you don't get scammed time and time again. This has definitely been another lesson learned.