Well one of the reasons our blog has been so quiet is that I’ve been on holiday to Mexico and managed to get stuck for a further week because of the Iceland volcanic ash cloud. Sounds great doesn’t it, stuck in Mexico for 3 weeks, and it did the tan no end of good! But when you’ve got a business to run, it’s a bit worrying.

Fortunately I’ve got a great team who kept our business running beautifully so I needn’t have worried, but for many it’s further burden in what has so far proved to be a troublesome year. First there was snow to stop the year’s business starting at all followed by, what I’ve called inertia, where people seemed somehow paralysed to make their next move. We’ve had strikes and then ash clouds threatening to bring the country to a standstill once again. Not to mention the grip of the election…

Can we not just get on with business this year please! It will certainly test many businesses, many of whom will be struggling in this economic climate. And if nothing else it will test our resilience as entrepeneurs. Funny enough one of the books I did read whilst stuck in Mexico was Rachel Elnaugh’s Business Nightmares which portrays the many business failures of some of our famous entrepeneurs. An interesting read and ironically a positive one if you are in business. Many of these disruptions are out of our control but we can overcome them and many will see opportunities from them.

The key message is to stay positive, stay in control and lots of determination to keep going!