"The BFG of Business...."

We made it through January everyone!

I've been reflecting on January today. All told it was a really good month for me and mine. Far from perfect, but if the rest of the year continues to progress at the rate January did, 2013 really will be the year that my life got back on track. 

Physically, I'm not happy with progress. I can't lie, this mouth of mine is a joke and the fact i still can't wear anything other than espadrilles is becoming extremely tiresome. The scar is healing though, the swelling isn't as bad either. My face is still repairing, but it's settling down slowly. I'm getting there, just not quite at the pace I expected too.

Other than that, the baby situation is really cool. Had a couple of scans in the past 2 weeks and the youths are measuring up perfectly well according to the 'normal' chart. They obviously can't measure for 'Jezisms' with an ultrasound stick though. We still have one with the O'Neill 'Concorde' Nose and one with the Cameron 'Normal' Nose. Genitalia is yet to be 100% confirmed, but we saw a dangler on one, so there's a little Jezza in there, maybe 2!

Business has been a whirlwind of activity. I've spent more time on the trains this month than I have for at least the previous year. On the whole they've been OK and really economical. I never thought I'd be saying that after 2000 miles of travel on our ageing rail network. I've nailed a few deals, even helped close a 5pm month ender last night whilst on the train, using my phone as a modem to flit between supplier and end-user. I'll not be able to pay the mortgage without a loan from Fi, but I've had a lot of faith from people and a lot of positive vibes that should manifest in itself financially in the coming months. There's a little hope that I might just pull this running a business lark off despite the position I've started from! This is a good thing for all concerned because the thought of having to go and get a job is enough to put the fear of God into me and every potential employer in the South West! 

Not content with one new business, I'm having another one too. 2 new businesses is a much cooler idea than only having one to worry about. What a difference a month makes hey!? 

I've never had a problem with having cool ideas. I wonder if anyone wants a couple of almost functioning new businesses so I can think of another bizarre company to set-up. It'd be perfect if I could just conjure up quirky new business ideas and sell them on before the complicated art of profiteering begins. In fact, I could create a new business called 'The Think Tank' and that business' function could be purely to think up madcap business ideas that I could sell to other wanabee entrepreneurs who aren't very creatively minded like me. 'The BFG of Business', collecting dreams and releasing them into the world for people to enjoy. 

I'd better patent this or you'll all think you're as talented at crazy ideas that you couldn't possibly follow through with as I am. Don't kid yourselves, this is a very special mind, mind...

The wonderment of imagination is great. Sometimes it does blur my reality though. A little like the other day when I woke up with my new mantra at the front of my mind; 'I had cancer, cancer didn't have me'. I really don't know where it came from, my creative mind, or my subconscious, storing something I'd read somewhere. 

Anyway, whether or not it has been real, January has been the best month I’ve had for a long time. I feel like I’ve achieved as much as I could have possibly expected. I’m getting my Mojo back, feeling like I’m waking up from a tranquiliser haze. ‘Be Nice’ is really working out for me and, I guess, the people who I’m spending time with. I’ve had some of the most wonderful comments about this blog and the work I’m trying to do. And the babies, the babies, the babies; they’re making me well up just at the thought of them…

One Love

Jez

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