Networking is a brilliant way of doing business. It allows you to meet a huge range of different people from all walks of life and share your ideas, contacts and to glean valuable information which can help in your business life. It’s also pretty popular for social circle building too. Realising the value of these [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Success'
Garden Network | Success story
May 13th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: garden design · gardening · Inspiration · networking · Success
Gardening | Garden Design | Grow your own, progress
March 18th, 2009 No Comments
With all this lovely warm weather the seedlings that we planted a couple of weeks ago are germinating well and giving us the excitement of looking forward to our first crop. First up are the lettuce seeds Lollo Rossa which are doing well indoors. In a couple of weeks these will be ready to plant [...]
Tags: enjoy · garden design · gardening · lifestyle · money saving · Plant · Success
Gardening | Garden Design | Grow your own, involving children
March 1st, 2009 1 Comment
Growing your own vegetables is both exciting and rewarding – not to mention the cost benefits and environmental impact. Today I made that experience even more special. Involving the family in growing their own vegetables has some great and often unexpected results. The enthusiasm of reading the packet, discovering that one packet contains a humungus [...]
Tags: benefit · enjoy · garden design · gardening · low maintenance · money saving · Plant · reduced carbon · Success
Gardening | Garden Design | Grow your own 1
February 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Grow your Own Vegetables TIP 1 With vegetable seeds typically being sold in packs of hundreds of seeds, why not get together with your friends or family to share your seeds (and the costs!). You could even have a competition to see who can grow the biggest crop. Take a pack of Lollo Rossa seeds: [...]
Tags: benefit · garden design · gardening · Inspiration · low maintenance · money saving · opportunity · reduced carbon · Success
Gardening | Garden Design | No better time to build a home!
January 28th, 2009 2 Comments
Kevin McLoud of TV’s Grand Designs article on ‘No better time to build a home’ in The Telegaph has an excellent theme and has some sound advice. But maybe you don’t want to be quite that adventurous just yet! Perhaps first of all you would be more comfortable making the most of what you have [...]
Tags: benefit · development · garden design · gardening · Inspiration · opportunity · Success
Inspiration | Where do you get yours from?
January 23rd, 2009 No Comments
There are a number of people who inspire me. Usually for different reasons – but I’m going to start by mentioning someone that I met late last year. The gentleman in question is Geoff Holt. Geoff famously circumnavigated Great Britain in 2007 and I was privileged enough to get to see him talk about his [...]
Tags: goal · Inspiration · opportunity · Success · target
Gardening | Garden Design | Who will use your garden?
January 20th, 2009 No Comments
Garden Design tips. Who is going to use your garden? What are their needs – are they young or old? How will you cater for their needs? When you are planning your garden give some thought for the needs of the people who will use it. Different age groups have different needs. Adults requirements are [...]
Tags: garden design · gardening · goal · Success
Gardening | Garden Design | What good is it?
January 19th, 2009 No Comments
How is the fact that I have won a Gold Medal for a show garden important for you? It’s all very well and good me winning a Gold Medal – an achievement I am extremely proud of – but what good is that to you if you are considering commissioning a garden designer? On the [...]
Tags: garden design · gardening · Success
Twitter | business | early thoughts
January 18th, 2009 2 Comments
I have recently been introduced to this exciting online networking application. My initial thoughts were that it was of little importance as a business tool. Many of the postings seemed to be about walking the dog or what people were having for tea – not too inspiring! The reason for this is that Twitter is [...]
Tags: business · development · opportunity · Success · Twitter
Success | definition
January 17th, 2009 No Comments
I have been asked a couple of times recently what the word success meant to me. My initial response was that success was a state reached where I didn’t have to worry about anything anymore. Then I did some thinking – my initial response was actually closer to a definition of failure. Success for me [...]