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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

March Madness

Hello there!

Well the house warming party was postponed because our new kitchen arrived - yay! Massive woop woop actually and can't wait for it to be fitted now.  Waiting for our new living room suite to be delivered in the next few weeks too.  Thank goodness for our families - they've helped us out so much.

On the JCS front, I've sent out lovely mail-shots to 16 local tack shops, stables and riding schools requesting kindly that they display my business cards etc. and to the riding schools I've asked them if they have any vacancies.  Bit of a waiting game really now.  Have put a couple of ads up too.  One in the local paper that goes online too and on Lincs Equestrian. My details should be up with the BHS soon waiting for registration to be completed.

I'm going to a Business Link seminar tonight called Marketing Your New Business so hopefully going to get some tips on raising awareness of my services.

My fab Client No.1 has taken some bumpf to the big T superstore where she works and distributed it to fellow horse riders in the hope they might like me to teach them too.  I am now teaching No.1 every week and have devised a 20 week fitness programme for her neddy.  You may be thinking 20 weeks??  Yes well, this is a very busy owner and I don;t want to pressure her too much, so we have stretched the programme out to suit her and her horse.

I've also finished the last book in the Twilight Saga this week.

  The Twilight Saga Collection

What to say?  I think it is a great series of books for teenagers as it is very easy to read and imaginative but not very grown up and sadly I felt the last book wanting.  It was good but think it could have been a bit better.  Moving on to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo next or possibly a Jodi Picoult novel.  I LOVE to read.  So much so I've bought 8 books from Ebay recently all relating to horses and coaching and fitness and physiology and dressage.  Looking forward to tackling those too.

Coaching Skills for Riding TeachersThe Horse: Fitness and CompetitionThe Horse Physiology (Open College Handbook)The Horse: The Foot, Shoeing and Lameness (Open College)Dressage for the Young RiderFitness for Horse & Rider: Gain More from Your Riding by Improving Your Horse's Fitness and Condition-And Your Own

Right, think I'll pop the kettle on for a cuppa tea ....

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

BUSY!

Oooh not blogged for a bit - sooooo busy! In middle of house refurb and setting up JCS Equestrian and getting my hip better too!

JCS is pretty much ready to go - got one client so far that I had already - just need to market myself a bit :-)

House warming on Saturday all going well - kitchen arriving today, new lounge suite ordered, most of decorating done and bathroom nearly ready too.

Can't wait.

J

x

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Fresh Start!

I am so happy that my good and lovely friend Gill has given birth to her second son today,  brother to little Luke.    I couldn't beam more for Gill and her lovely fella Neil.  He's so chuffed to have two boys now!

I love fresh starts!  All change and another page to start on.  I am free of my old job now and am positively bursting at the seams to get off the ground officially.

Lots of paperwork ready to be sent off and an appointment with the bank to set up an account for business.  Next is a round of visits to riding schools and livery yards with my details and to all the tack shops and leisure centres.

CAN'T WAIT!  Got a session booked with a client on Friday morning.  This is the beginning ... :-D

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

MRI Experience

Well, yesterday I had an MRI done of my right hip to try and find out what is wrong with it.  What a weird and hellish noisy experience that was!  I popped into a gown and climbed onto a bed/platform thingy and then the radiographer strapped my hip into a cradle and strapped my feet together so I couldn't move them.  Hands down my sides and I got to hold a buzzer in case I need help and then some big headphones to try and drown out the sound of the machine because it is so LOUD!  Weirder still, the headphones first song was "How Bizarre" and then Tom Jones!

It was a little scary as it was so incredibly noisy and booming.  Plus you are squeezed into a little tube and can't see anything but the inside of the tube.   To top it off I got a tickle in my throat and an itch on my shoulder that was HUGELY distracting LOL.  I managed to somehow ignore them til it ended about 15 mins later.

So, now I'm waiting for my results.  Consultant thinks it is a labral tear :-S

Also popped in to see yet another GP to go over my medical report for my current employer while I'm off work.  He was quite positive that I shouldn't be working properly atm so I am glad of the extra time to get set up as a freelance instructor in my area before we part company either by them ending my contract or me resigning.

I am still putting together my business plan and now the weather seems to have cleared up much more now, I'm going to start harassing persuading suggesting my services to my friends and other potential clients.  Ooh I forgot that I may also have bagged myself the use of an outdoor arena in my next village for FREE which would be very useful for training OP and for giving lessons to local clients.  Must follow that up a bit more.

Right, time to go and do some more decorating of my new house and fetch the horse in.