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Building your business: are you living the dream yet?

Do you have a vision for your future?  If you do, are you working towards it or is it something that you hope might eventually happen without you putting in too much effort?

I was recently involved in a 14 day business building challenge where the participants were encouraged to think about their goals and where they eventually wanted to be.  The responses were amazing.  Some people simply wanted to keep their business going and be able to afford a reasonable standard of living with a few treats thrown in.  Others had much grander plans.

Me?  I love writing.  I’ve always thought of myself as being pretty introverted but I still enjoy asking nosy questions.  When I was advising clients on the law I used to be able to poke around factories asking about working methods and how they handled employee communications.  You wouldn’t believe how many personal injury claims can hinge on whether someone understood an instruction properly and if anyone checked.

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