That first step in enterprise

Yesterday I took my 3 year old daughter to Raby Castle for a family fun day. We'd just got there when she wanted to go to the swings, not the family fun day! I managed to persuade her to do the crafty activities and then we walked down to the adventure playground. There was a little activity course where she had to walk along planks and chains which she loved. She got to the chains where you have to hold onto the top chain and walk along the bottom, she was nervous. She asked for my help, I was there (obviously!) with support, holding her waist, she was still nervous. It was such a huge feat for her and she thought she'd never be able to make it to the other side, but she really really wanted to get to the other side. So I said, 'just take one step' she did. Then another step, then another step, until she'd finally got to the other end and she looked back at how far she'd come. It really inspired me. This was such a huge thing for her to do and she just broke it down into small chunks and built the chunks until she'd achieved her goal and achieved something amazing. That gave her the confidence to do the next chain on her own.

It was such an inspiration for me, and I wanted to share the story to anyone who thinks they can't do things. I'm a true believer that you can do anything you want in life - absolutely anything - so long as you really really want it. Eddie's always dreamed about going to space, he can do it. If he goes to college for 10 years then he'll be a qualified astronaut. 10 years seems like a lot but if he so desperately wants to do it then he will.

It helps if you have the support from people who know and love you, but it's not essential. You can get help from a whole load of people - me included. It helps that I'm a positive thinker and I see opportunities in everything, but I've only just got my confidence back these past few months, a year ago I would never have dared to put one step on those chains, but then I dared to take one step. That's all it took, just one step. Then I took another step and now I'm onto the next chain. I once wrote a poem which you might like (it's a bit mad LOL).

It only takes guts to grab it by the horns
It doesn't cost a dime
Life's about living, or so they say
So do it today or DIE

Told you it was a bit mad!

Have a good week, Helen
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As it says in the title, I've been eating, sleeping, and dreaming of key words, titles, headings, HI tags, a href's... I could go on! For the past month I've been upgrading our new Funky Wood website, please view it here: http://www.funkywood.co.uk/. I'm quite proud of my HTML and design skills, I never knew I had them! It's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it. If anyone's ever done web design before then you'll understand the immense torture you go through and then the fantastic pleasure when it all works!

I'm thinking about setting up a website design & SEO business as a side-line to Funky Wood. If anyon'e interested please contact me. Might call it Funky Projects. I'm going to launch a strategy and marketing business under the same name. It just seems a shame not to share my experiences and skills with the rest of the business population. It's another website to do though, so I need a couple of weeks rest, although at least this one won't be 45 pages!

Eddie's been driving me mad with backlink strategies. It's not that I disagree, it's just that he's obsessed! It's when we get into bed on a night and he says those immortal words... "I've found a fantastic website, you know what it says..." What with the HTML and his backlinks, I'm slowly going crazy(or crazi-er?).

I'm meeting up with a couple of sales agents this week to move on with our national sales campaign, it will be really nice to talk to a person rather than a computer. I also have to let previous customers and contacts know about our new, funky wood, website! So, until next week.contemporary doors.