I started my business with my wife when I
was eighteen years old. We've got no history
in business in our family, no training and
we kind of fell in to it with an idea. Which
is often like many people on here, who have
been through the same route. Where you don't plan
anything and someting happens and something
happy happens. Then you've got a chance to
change your life and do something that interests
you, and that is what happened to me.
But back then we didn't have, well not that I knew
of I don't think the word mentoring, you know,
it's like sustainability, nobody would've
known what sustainability was when I was growing
up and the same thing about mentoring, it
just wasn't used. But we where lucky enough,
myself and my wife, where lucky enough to
come across people who helped us massivley
get our business going. From Manufacturers
to Retailers and I suppose the ultimate thing
was that we where always interested in other people in other people's ideas. We never ever thought that
we where the only ones that where important
in the process and we never kind of we've
always understood that there is millions of
people with interesting brains and interesting
ideas out there and if we can assimilate a
bit of that then we have got a chance of going
further and that is what we have done all
the way through. To this day, I am constantly
in today's language, 'mentored'. That might
mean, reading up on the right magazines and
listening to the people who have got the right
kind of brains and it might mean regularly
meeting with people who are just the right
kind of people to keep meeting because they
have got the brains that help you. So it never
finishes mentoring, so today hopefully you
will meet, there is some good brains on this
train. Use it, but it's not just like twenty
minutes of mentoring, it should be with you
all the time.
