Yep, it’s been amazing. I’ve spent just about the whole of it on my own, in the office, staring at a computer screen! And now, at three o’clock on Sunday afternoon, I’m suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Where is the rest of the world, not to mention my own children?! I’m missing them. I feel as if I’ve disappeared into some kind of strange, silent ‘twilight zone’ – can’t even work out how to get the radio on for company! It reminds me of when I was little. Occasionally we’d find ourselves the only car on a country road, or something like that, and I’d feel like we could be the very last people left on the planet. Perhaps that’s it … perhaps I’m the only person left?! Or just the only person mad enough to be working on a weekend!
Anyway, part of the reason why I’m in here now is because I was at the Prowess conference during the week. I have to say, it was great! And not just because I actually got two whole nights of undisturbed sleep, which was heaven in itself! The whole thing was very well organised, full of interesting people doing interesting work. There were some really inspirational speakers and I was fired up in particular by:
- Margaret Heffernan, author of ‘How she does it’, telling the story of Carol Latham and other women entrepreneurs who’ve done great things in their own way
- Nell Merlino talking about the ‘Make mine a million $ business’ campaign she’s started in the States
- Josephine Fairley, founder of Green & Blacks chocolate and now owner of Judges all-organic bakery and the Wellington Square Natural Health Centre in Hastings
There was also a great presentation on marketing to women, which made the point that it’s not enough to just ‘think pink’! Slightly worrying when my stand at the conference had pink mats, pink tulips, a liberal scattering of pink business cards and a bowl of pinky-red cherries! I’d like to believe that, behind all that, I’d instinctively and unconsciously understood the way to a woman’s heart, but who really knows? I did get some positive feedback though, and the cherries went down well! Let’s see what happens at One Life next weekend.
Things are hotting up …
Tags: cherries, chocolate, Green & Blacks, Josephine Fairley, Make mine a million $ business, Margaret Heffernan, marketing to women, Nell Merlino, one life, pink, Prowess conference, twilight zone, weekend working, withdrawal symptoms
