Your Business is NOT worth dying for

Many of you know that I am writing a book called "Your business is NOT worth dying for" - the subtitle is called "avoiding commercial suicide".

It will cover my own story in 12 chapters and will detail the journey that I went through which I have seen in so many eyes of my fellow entrepreneurs and business owners.

I hope to launch it at the world congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention in Killarney in August 2007.

Writing it is reflective and cathartic and I hope that when it is finished, that it will show reflection, understanding, compassion and above all, help people who are going through what I went through to stop and feel what their bodies are telling them - that they have to re-evaluate before they burnout.

I am six chapters in and it has helped me understand the choices that I made and the people who are in my life.

It has made me grateful for every single day and it has made me appreciate the people in my life who lift me up.

It has also made me realise that there are people close to me who tear me down and it is time for me to leave them out of my future plans.

Brendan Behan once said "we are here for a good time, not a long time" and it has taken me a long time to realise that.

So let the good times roll !!

Paul