Well this is an interesting question.... how do I define work. I enjoy everything I do, so if it's not enjoyable it gets sidelined.
- Primary income source = Property Investor (and where I spend least time) I'm currently reducing my time on this even further.
- Secondary Income source = B2B supplier of business envelopes (employing more staff and my time commitment is dwindling - I hope to have a hands off management role here in the next 6 months)
- Third Income Source (and a poor source at present) - Teacher and trainer working in the area of communication skills with kids and parents. The objective is to help families resolve their own conflicts. I've never met a troubled teenager, just people who couldn't communicate. I expect this business to provide a regular ongoing income within 12 months. This business is about helping people find a way to improve their lives and grew out of work with my kids.
- Fourth Income Source (if I can call it that now) - I work with people in changing things in their lives that are not working for them. Things like breaking down the barriers to reading, dealing with fears and limiting beliefs, remove internally generated medical problems, dealing with past negative life changing experiences etc. This is a hobby for me and will become a business around late September early October this year. I'm looking for a premises at present.
Ultimately I see me creating business that have a positive impact on peoples lives.
If people get the chance to enjoy life more at a core level by using my products and services, then I would have achieved my primary goal.
My life is balanced between my kids, my partner, my work to produce an income and assets (the small amount of work), creating the new businesses, working with people individually and myself (bikes, cars, nature etc). People wonder how come our kids don't seem to be such a problem. (My oldest is what many parents would call a challenge and the catalyst for me teaching communication skills. I needed to learn how to communicate with her and the skills I needed to learn to work with her are primarily what I now teach.) She's an absolute joy to be around. 5 years ago she took 85% of my "kids time" with us having three kids. She had the ability to be a seriously troubled teenager primarily because I didn't know how to talk with her.
You know how sometimes you see a couple and you know they're deeply in love and it just permeates everything around them. Well that's what my partner and I are like. Often people comment on how in love we seem. Actually we are. I expect us to feel and look this way when we're well past 60. We're mid to late 40's now and apparently we act like love struck 18 year olds. We both feel like a pair of love struck 18 year olds. My partner is overseas and arriving back in two days. We've both been given clear and specific instructions by our daughter not to make a scene at the airport. If you've ever had a dog and seen how it responds when you return from being away for a patch. Well, that's us. So I'll be giving a passionate embrace and receiving one. Does that constitute a scene? Of course there will be the passionate kiss as well and ... I guess if she wraps her legs around me and we end up in that pose for a while that might constitute a scene. What my daughter forgot is a scene for one person may not be a scene for another.
I think my partner and I are the perfect fit. It's unbelievable how well we fit together. Sorry, I'm a little lost in the thought of her.
Lastly to the electronics person above, I'm an electronics engineer by trade.
I'm am so in love.[WV][
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Mark, bankers are my friends. [booze] Yes, I'm free for lunch, golf etc. No, I don't import and export but shall we just assume I want to. Which I do. Really.