Sherie Griffiths

First, an apology for the complete lack of posts last week. I blame the Bank Holiday – and clients, who will insist on taking priority over everything else, for some strange reason. Anyone would think they’re paying for the privilege!!! Seriously, though, client work is my favourite part of this job.

What were you doing a year ago yesterday? Can you remember? I can – vividly. I was launching a company. I spent most of Monday 11th May ’09 getting ready for the launch party in the evening and stressing about whether all my colleagues would get to the venue on time – and even more about whether we would have enough guests.

I needn’t have worried. My team, who had all agreed to present with me and had each gone several extra miles to make that happen. Were all present and correct by 5.45 – by which time the Wine Tun, by St Paul’s cathedral, was filling up nicely.

For me, that was an incredible evening – the reward for so much hard work, by everyone concerned and the realisation of more than one personal dream. All too often we don’t enjoy our own parties – but I did that night! I even broke my own rule about never drinking before a presentation. I don’t think you can tell I’d been on the champagne, can you? The uniformed waiters, walking around with trays of food and drink, were so polite and attentive, it seemed rude to refuse – well, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

As I wrote to one of my co-presenters last night, ‘12 months
on, the company isn’t where I thought it would be – but it’s somewhere a lot more
promising. Off to have a glass of wine to celebrate that fact!’

The coming year looks to be a busy one, for us as a company and for me personally, with the book coming out in the next few months (more of which later), our new ‘podzine’ beginning in June (more of that later too) and all those clients getting in the way of my writing blog posts – as well as some other new projects in the offing –Yes, ‘promising’ certainly describes our upcoming second year. If I weren’t drafting this before 7:00 AM, I’d drink to that …