2010 has been an interesting year, with highs and not so highs, but it has been an important year.
This has been the year of other people helping me. Previously it’s always been “Nick to the resuce” doing what I can to help other people, from cooking for friends writing a website for a missing person.
This year has been a tough one for many businesses and many of us have found “that which we rely upon” is no longer there. I have been lucky, people have helped me, and for their help I am grateful. I have also found it to be a truly humbling experience at the same time. I am lucky to have these people think that much of me that they have helped in the various ways that they have, sometimes at personal cost, sometimes putting their necks on the block to protect mine.
To those people, from the bottom of my heart, Thank You.
It has been a rollercoaster ride, on which I have had to learn new things, new ways to look at and deal with things, there are several noteable firsts as well. In 2010 I was published for the first time, both with fiction and non-fiction, little did a magazine editor realise what she was letting herself in for when at an event in January she pulled a pile of dvds from her bag and said “who wants to review a DVD”?
In 2010 I was able to further establish my on and off line retail business, bring new products to market, and with inspiration and support start laying foundations for the future.
I also realised something in a text conversation with my sister a couple of days ago, we never give up, if you cut us down we will grow back stronger, we just keep on keeping on.
Its worth a go.
Try it.