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Ok it\u2019s not quite that bad\u2026.but Christmas and New Year were a bit of a blur and even though it\u2019s the Wednesday morning I feel like I\u2019ve been back at the office for weeks!<\/p>\n

The year ended with Mrs P getting the operation I mentioned previously<\/a> so the run up to Christmas was filled with visits to the hospital (which was 25 miles away)<\/p>\n

Thankfully the operation went to plan and we\u2019re eagerly awaiting January 18th for the "switch on\u201d (full details on Bryony\u2019s blog here)<\/a> <\/p>\n

New Year came and went and as usual the break gave me plenty of time to reflect on the previous twelve months<\/p>\n

As usual the annual Tubblog yearly review kicked me in the ass and reminded me I\u2019ve still got plenty to learn when it comes to goal setting (go read it\u2026.seriously<\/a>)<\/p>\n

So looking back on 2009 there were a couple of things that stood out for me to reflect on<\/p>\n

Family<\/strong> \u2013 My second daughter Evie was born<\/a>, Even though it happened in January last year it was still far and away the biggest thing that happened to me last year. I\u2019m immensely proud of both of my girls and can\u2019t wait to see them growing during 2010<\/p>\n

Blogging<\/strong> \u2013 I finally stopped cross posting here and to my WordPress.com blog this time last year.<\/a> I\u2019m glad I made the jump and went self hosted but I do sometimes worry if the blog is relevant, interesting, etc. My output wasn\u2019t as high as I\u2019d have liked (I\u2019m partially blaming Twitter!) but I still enjoy writing here and the blog has created a lot of opportunities for me which I\u2019m very grateful for so I\u2019ll be looking to post more frequently this year<\/p>\n

AMITPRO<\/strong> \u2013 Myself and Guy Gregory took over the running of Midlands SBS User group<\/a>. This was something I was very proud to be able to do. Getting involved with the group is one of the best things that has happened during my professional career. I\u2019ve met some great people and have learnt so more from both a technical perspective and a business perspective and look I\u2019m looking forward to seeing where 2010 takes us. Our next meeting is on 12th January if your interested \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Economy<\/strong> \u2013 You may have heard there were one or two problems as far as the economy was concerned! The timing of the problems were a real kick in the teeth for us. Towards the end of 2008 we made plans to grow the business and made some investments. We took on extra staff<\/a>, got some more office space, brought a van<\/a>,etc, etc with the idea to spend 2009 growing the business. With the change in the business landscape we spent most of 2009 learning that we suck at sales and marketing which suddenly become a lot harder as people held onto their cash that bit tighter!<\/p>\n

That is oversimplifying some but some of the things we wanted to do in 2009 just didn\u2019t happen because someone moved the goal posts!<\/p>\n

The downtime at the end of the year gave me time to think about where I want us to be this time next year and how best to achieve that\u2026that probably means I\u2019ll be tapping you up for opinions and ideas so in the vein of this great post on the Ostrich IT blog, I\u2019m sorry<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve hit the ground running this year have got an awful lots of things sorted in these first few days of January which is why this post is late!<\/p>\n

Whatever you did I hope Christmas and New Year were great and good luck for 2010!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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