Comments on: 5 Steps to Beating the Winter Blues http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues How to make Simple and Loveable businesses Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Strings http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues/comment-page-1#comment-4709 Strings Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:07:04 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues#comment-4709 One of my favourite places in the world is a chocolate cafe in New York! You can't buy anything there that doesn't contain chocolate, even though they have a full menu of appetisers, mains deserts and after desert. They have 16 DIFFERENT hot chocolate drinks too! I thought of opening such a place, even did the business case etc., but then decided I was getting too old to work the hours it would take to get it up to speed. If anyone fancies doing the work I'll offer a partnership - in fact I could probably get Jim to come in and take half the financial risk (he's a good guy on a chocolate high, as I remember from 1993!) leaving 1/3 for the 'managing owner' to take up through effort! NOW YOUNG LADY (:-)) Good on ya for posting this. It's sometimes hard to open up, especially when you are meant to be a great go-getter with everlasting enthusiasm and optimism. The realities of life are that there are ups and downs, that's part of what makes life simple. What makes a blogger lovable is a willingness to share the downs as well as the ups. I wish, back when I was a struggling entrepreneur, I had had a forum like this to get things off my chest and grab some advice from. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the Internet is the friendships between people who would otherwise have had no contact it has facilitated. Your challenge is to use it, and us, to support you in your endeavours, ours is to enjoy the world through the lens of your experiences - good and bad. Go well. And if you need someone to share a chocolate with you have my eddress! One of my favourite places in the world is a chocolate cafe in New York! You can’t buy anything there that doesn’t contain chocolate, even though they have a full menu of appetisers, mains deserts and after desert. They have 16 DIFFERENT hot chocolate drinks too!

I thought of opening such a place, even did the business case etc., but then decided I was getting too old to work the hours it would take to get it up to speed. If anyone fancies doing the work I’ll offer a partnership – in fact I could probably get Jim to come in and take half the financial risk (he’s a good guy on a chocolate high, as I remember from 1993!) leaving 1/3 for the ‘managing owner’ to take up through effort!

NOW YOUNG LADY (:-))

Good on ya for posting this. It’s sometimes hard to open up, especially when you are meant to be a great go-getter with everlasting enthusiasm and optimism. The realities of life are that there are ups and downs, that’s part of what makes life simple. What makes a blogger lovable is a willingness to share the downs as well as the ups.

I wish, back when I was a struggling entrepreneur, I had had a forum like this to get things off my chest and grab some advice from. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the Internet is the friendships between people who would otherwise have had no contact it has facilitated. Your challenge is to use it, and us, to support you in your endeavours, ours is to enjoy the world through the lens of your experiences – good and bad.

Go well. And if you need someone to share a chocolate with you have my eddress!

]]> By: Kristin http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues/comment-page-1#comment-4669 Kristin Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:29:49 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues#comment-4669 Nat said: "we are severely lacking vitamin D and all the other joys of the sun." So true, gotta get it when you can. Thank for the thoughts. I often forget the Wairarapa. It's a gem waiting to make us Wellingtonians a little happier. Nat said:
“we are severely lacking vitamin D and all the other joys of the sun.”

So true, gotta get it when you can. Thank for the thoughts.

I often forget the Wairarapa. It’s a gem waiting to make us Wellingtonians a little happier.

]]> By: Nat http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues/comment-page-1#comment-4665 Nat Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:57:00 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues#comment-4665 Absolutely nothing actually, apart from when they aren't made right and don't have enough chocolate in them! Absolutely nothing actually, apart from when they aren’t made right and don’t have enough chocolate in them!

]]> By: Bruce Hoult http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues/comment-page-1#comment-4664 Bruce Hoult Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:45:32 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues#comment-4664 What's wrong with hot chocolate? But you can't make a really good one unless you have an espresso machine ;-) What’s wrong with hot chocolate?

But you can’t make a really good one unless you have an espresso machine ;-)

]]> By: Nat http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues/comment-page-1#comment-4662 Nat Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:45:00 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues#comment-4662 Aww man! I say coffee because coffee is sophisticated and normal. How many people STILL only drink hot chocolates. You totally put my deepest, darkest secret on the internet! :) Ha ha yes, true true, always good to treat yourself, although, sometimes, moderation doesn't work and after downing chocolate and chippies galore, you end up feeling worse. But that's only me and only because I LOVE food and don't love moderation Aww man! I say coffee because coffee is sophisticated and normal. How many people STILL only drink hot chocolates. You totally put my deepest, darkest secret on the internet! :)

Ha ha yes, true true, always good to treat yourself, although, sometimes, moderation doesn’t work and after downing chocolate and chippies galore, you end up feeling worse. But that’s only me and only because I LOVE food and don’t love moderation

]]> By: Jim http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues/comment-page-1#comment-4661 Jim Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:11:08 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/5-steps-to-beating-the-winter-blues#comment-4661 It was chocolate, as I recall, or are you trying to keep that particular vice a secret? Now I come to think of it, why isn't chocolate on your list? Treating yourself can be a good way to lift the spirits, subject to moderation. It was chocolate, as I recall, or are you trying to keep that particular vice a secret? Now I come to think of it, why isn’t chocolate on your list? Treating yourself can be a good way to lift the spirits, subject to moderation.

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