[Clive McDonald]

I agree vince, but looked at the other way everthing becomes a mirror image of us.The person with the nasty little dog probably is nasty.The pit bull owner a bully.

Someone with a large and profitable business, a multifaceted personality, an intelectual with wide reading, probably projects and descibes me best- if you get what i mean.

In other words i am okay with looking in the mirror but escapism is part of my nature.

[Londoner]

Well lets try another bounce of the ball. The person with the large and sucessful business  may well just be a ruthless nasty numpty who doesn't care who he walks all over to get what he wants.

[Dave Willis]

  I've always thought that. How many of us had really great bosses in our previous careers? How many great chummy managing directors have you worked for? Not many I bet.

[Tom White]

Someone with a large and profitable business, a multifaceted personality, an intelectual with wide reading, probably projects and descibes me best- if you get what i mean.

What's a multifaceted personality?

What sort of 'wide reading' do you do, and how does reading equate you to being an intellectual?

I'm just interested! 

[Clive McDonald]

Well most recently i've read business books and biographies. I used to read the classics, hemingway, frank richards, dickens etc.

I don't read much spiritual stuff as i believe is your interest, but i am fairly conversant with most philosophies.i know about calculous, churchills speeches, and excel spreadsheets.

My outook tends to be genial and humourous.Thats why i included frank richards because i knew you'd have to google it

My general knowledge is quite poor.On that quiz programme the chase i am rubbish.

[Clive McDonald]

Okay let me give you a couple of examples of my intelectualism tosh as you did say you were interested.First if i wanted to get a rise out of you the easiest way would be to equate myself casually with some kind of officer class.But as i don't, you can stand down.
Second this idea of blogging seems a lot like the sermon a vicar used to give- except that the parable is more often to do with smart biz than godliness.Here's an email one of the leading biz intelectuals sent me today and if you analyse it as a blogg it is a classic sermon.Here goes.

Idea tourism

It's possible for a tourist to visit Times Square in New York City, see nothing new or unexpected, and leave the city unchanged.

Same with the Eiffel Tower in Paris or a shopping mall in Dubai. Tourism doesn't always open your mind, but when it works the way it supposed to, it sure does.

Which brings us to the notion of idea tourism.

It's possible to do a drive-by of some of the big ideas of science or politics or technology and see only what you want to see. I don't think there's a lot of point in that. If you want to truly understand Darwin, then go to a lab and do some experiments. If you want to understand a gun lover, go to a shooting range for an afternoon. If you want to see how social networking will actually change the way ideas spread, go use it. Intensely, and with a purpose in mind.

Only when we try the idea on for size and actually use it do we understand it. With more ideas offering visitation rights than ever before, learning how empathize with an idea is critical.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's another that the author of a recent best selling book sent me.


Thanks, Clive - interesting idea. Will noodle on that for a bit... :-)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So you see Tosh that i am in correspondence with some of the greatest minds and up to date thinkers in the world, and not only that but i am interested to hear how people on here react to ideas too.

[G Griffin]

i know about calculous,

But not how so spell it  . 

[Alex Allen]

The e myth is the title of a book and i think it must have been written especially for us.Published in 95 and a bestseller ever since it addresses people who start a business and then get trapped by it. Trapped by having to work harder and harder and harder.

Trapped by not really haviing a business at all but merely a well paid job.


I'm in this trap and pretty fed up.I know a few of you have read it because it's been mentioned before on here.But if you haven't read it you can still have a view.

I'm coming up to four years in and all i do is work and work and work.If i carry on for another four is that all i have to look forward to?

I can't tell you what the book suggests as a solution because i am only half way through, but i do know that a few of you have found a way through, and i also know that many are in the same boat as me, and a few treat the job as a hobby.

So, thoughts please.It's okay to be as critical of me as you like- i can take it

work work work sounds about right
i dont dont know if you are doing well or not
but if your still just in the habit of collecting customers after 4 years
thats a mistake lots of new window cleaners keep making
next thing, they talk about employing staff (because they collect customers and dont no nothing else)
most never learn, just depends what you will be doing in the next 4 years

that book didnt help by the sounds of it