develop my business to the point where I can start taking a salary

After struggling for over a year, I am getting slowly but surely to the point where I can really have salary and can live from doing the thing I love most: giving training t young people and youth workers! Yes! A year of building up a business is really not that long, so I am proud of myself right now! This is going to work! yes!

will be my year of success! I am sure I will make my financial target and maybe even exceed it if I manage to make a good planning and transfer all the ideas I have into reality! Rome was also not build in one day, so if I really can make Trainstorm work in 2009 I will be very proud of myself!

so I will have a steady basic income next year but this also means my business form and organisation will have to be ready for it! To make this happen I will need to take steps in book keeping, registration of VAT etc. I really need to make sure everything is organised well so I can keep it in order with a minimum of effort and time loss. I am not bussiness administrator but a creative trainer! Keeping my priorities straight, my organisation up to date and my head above water in adminstrative water is the challenge to come! To be continued for sure…
I really love the Belgian administrative system and sarcasm is my middle name! ;-)

and I am of course dissappointed since I really wanted to do this one. But it also makes clear to me that I am really dependent on other organisers of trainings and their mysterious ways of selection. I really need to take my faith into my own hands and develop my own concepts and trainings! I know I can do it! I have the talent, the enthusiasm and this is my thing to do! So why am I still holding back? Being scared of my own success is not a good basis for being succesful! So I need to get a grip here!

so fingers crossed I will get in! I will light a special candle for my guardian angel (I am still old fashioned, I addmit) and am really grateful already for be able to do it! I would be in the team with one of my dear friends I haven’t seen for almost a year so if that is not a good reason to pick me, I don’t know what is (except for being my fabulous self of course ;-) ) !
Will post the decision the minute I find out! Some additional crossing your fingers would be grately appreciated… :-D

i’m not one to run in the rat race. what? get up at 630am to go to a place i don’t like, sit in a suffocating cubicle & do a job that i dispise? no way! i’d rather be free – work for myself.

i’ve been working for myself for a while now & have found that it doesn’t pay as well as the grind, nor are the hours good. no benefits. but i do get a lot of vacation – without pay.

i’m poor & i’d like to not be poor anymore.

I work for a not for profit research institute, yes doing research and advocacy is the thing that I like. And I’ve been bless so much that I can do it without thinking too much about the financial side of life, for the institute or for my self. Until now that is.

In my personal life and in the professional also (if I can call it that) the financial side is catching up on us. We have a choice of doing bussines as usual, yes we can still make it, although it certainly will hit our effectiveness, but we can make it. What is more worrying is that it is going to hit on our accountability soon when suddenly any of us is tempted enough to play with the little fund that we have, giving all the valid reson and cook our book so not to show it.

Now is the time to think hard and maybe do something drastic before events took the best of us.

how much? the same amount i made in my last job as a wage-slave.
when? as quick as possible, until feb 06.