What Am I Doing?

Hello. I'm Richard.

In November 2014, I registered self-employed and created the trading name 'always possible' as the genesis of an idea. I was still working full-time as the Operations Manager for a busy training provider in Brighton as well as juggling life as a father (a 5 year old and an 8 month old), a husband, a school governor and a human being who likes to eat, cycle, garden and sit down with my eyes closed and listen to sad music.

The urge to create was taking me over, and whilst my work was exciting, ever varied and valued - I was feeling stuck in a bubble and bogged in detail. I'm good at building networks and sniffing out opportunities, at advising and shaping new ideas, so every inch of my instinct was telling me to engineer that in a new way.

The name 'always possible' is intended to answer development questions - What about? Can I? Is there a way to?

It's always possible.

It's always possible to be brilliant and imaginative and successful. It's always possible to get things right and to make a difference. 

You just need to work out what's getting in the way and remove it. Always simple? Hell no. But I am confident I can help others - I have spent the past 15 years solving creative, business, planning, staffing and delivery problems.

I'm not an expert, or a guru, on anything. These lazy titles suggest that all the learning has happened and that curiosity is spent.

I am a specialist in a few areas, but a student of everything. I have experience , an analytical brain and an approach with people that works. The adventure and the challenge now is to see if these qualities can continue to help make lots of other organisations get better and thrive in a difficult market place. 

I'm keen to do this differently, and not on my own. I have already gathered some amazing associate consultants to join the biz, and there will be lots more on that later.

Why start this blog now?

My business cards arrived today, which seems to be symbolic - an old 'technology', but a new direction of travel for me.

I will blog regularly, documenting my journey, opportunities and challenges and the interesting people I meet and things I learn along the way. I'll not be betraying my clients' confidence, just mapping the discoveries of a new business finding its feet. Hopefully it will inform and entertain you.

Let me know what you think:

blog@alwayspossible.co.uk

Rich