About Me

My name is Andy Thompson – I live in the UK with my lovely wife and a brown cockapoo called CoCo.

Our 3 children have grown up and left the nest and we have 2 grandchildren (currently)

I am approaching the age where I could retire from my full time job but I do enjoy it and I would miss the people if I left.  I mostly work from home

I have always had a dream about starting my own business though.

Part time, on the side, maybe earn enough to make my retirement a little more comfortable (or perhaps even hasten it’s arrival)

So over the last few years I have started to build it.

I made sure that I understood the ins and outs (and theory) of building a list, driving traffic, creating products, SEO, WordPress.

I niched down and then niched up, had a little bit of success but never really enough to justify the time and effort I was putting in.

I was (in truth) spinning my wheels – safe in the comfort zone of a full time job and maybe not really needing to make money to feed a retirement plan which I knew was a good few years away

But I was always faced with the nagging doubt that I was good enough to make this thing real, and then it dawned on me whilst walking CoCo on a lovely sunny day

I realised that I needed to change my mindset.

I was not afraid of failure.  Failure was easy and could be played out without actually telling anyone

I was actually afraid of success.

Which is silly, really.

But it was stopping me from launching things, pushing buttons and was leaving projects half finished.

I also realised that in my day job, I use (with apologies to Liam Neeson) “a certain set of skills” which are extremely useful when setting up your own business.

More importantly, I realised that when I am “doing my thing ” at work, I think like a Project Manager.

And I wasn’t thinking like a Project Manager in my attempts at my solopreneur business.

This site is therefore all about my shift in focus and how I changed my mindset to achieve my (relative) success.

And I firmly believe that you can make those same changes – you may just need a little push.

There are some great free tools dotted across the site, which should help you move forward, as well as the articles on the blo

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