Diary of a busyish woman

The Forbes quote today was: ' Have your own definition of success...so you can fulfill your dreams, not someone else's expectations of your dreams. Elliot Fletcher I read this quote & immediately saved it. Since then, I've looked at it, thought about it, applied it to our situation & to me, and then thought some more.  Let's get real here - if we have children, we have expectations. Be they right or wrong, in various ways, obvious and subtle, we do our best to have those expectations realised from their friends to the subject choices they make in secondary school, college choices, even down to our expectation for their personal lives and the type of person they choose to marry. Ideally, we would like them to be a 'chip off the old block'.  It's not going to happen! Even though when we see children and you'd know who they were before they spoke as they are so like a particular parent, currently all children are the product of two peo...

SuperValu Ireland have developed a programme for the small, and not so small, food producers in collaboration with Bord Bia and the Local Enterprise Offices . William has completed the Basic Food Academy and now the opportunity is there for our business to grow as we can approach a number of SuperValu shops where we don't have a presence and see how we get on. For some people this is the first step in bringing their product to national and international supermarket shelves, and for others it will be an opportunity to identify exactly how far they want to go. It's led me to thinking of what being successful means. On many programmes like the RTE Radio 1 Countrywide programme, we hear of those who are showcasing Irish products nationally and internationally, but not of the small producer who is more than happy doing a local farmers' or Country market as well as perhaps a local shop or SuperValu. These producers are successful too in my opinion - they know the value of the...