120 minutes of Business Coaching

On Friday I went to meet someone who I had met at a recent Federation of Small Businesses Event. We'd spent about five minutes chatting and having exchanged cards agreed to meet for a nice one shot Latte near where we both live. We agreed to meet at 10.30 and spend about half an hour together. We both arrived at 10.30 and left left 2 hours later.  We spent 90 minutes talking about what we had in common: Redundancy, gutters falling off our houses during the recent cold snap, education, family and interests. We spent 10 minutes talking about what we did and then twenty minutes bouncing ideas off each other. At the end I said thanks because one or two things that I had mulling over suddenly became clear and I had a new energy to tackle these issues and greater conviction about my capacity to do so. What we both agreed on was that small business can be a lonely business. The two hours we both spent on Friday was highly productive. As my friend said: "People do business with people".