Planning For Succession/Exhaustion!

Wearing two hats can be pretty exhausting !

For 10 years now I have been Marketing Partner and , in addition ,I have headed up the Private Client Dept-with not only responsibility for a dozen plus people but with a hefty workload in terms of servicing the Clients-oh and then there are the techi jobs-rewriting precedents/thinking out policy/strategy /interpreting law-old and new- etc etc

The problem is that I love both roles and wouldn't like to relinquish either!!.

This week has been a "corker" with three pretty time consuming ,work- related marketing initiatives-a Seminar on Succession Planning for Farmers which we had last night-went down like a dream/strawberries and cream!!

No 2? we are planning a Trusts Tax and Investment Seminar for the end of the month-
.....and No 3..we've hit the ground running re the May Charity Ball -invites will be out next week.
Yes ,last night went well-we had a great and informed audience and the technology behaved!!My co- speakers were very polished.

I think in such situations it is felt that I, as a farmers daughter, at least understand the farmers' usual philosophy that they are only caretakers of the land for the next genearation !!

A kindly gent even said that my passion for farming and agriculture "shone through"in my presentation

I am pretty exhausted-it feels like this week has gone on for ever -but equally exhilerated and excited-one of my IFA friends to whom I mentioned being excited about the Tax and Trusts seminar said I needed "to get out more "and everyone keeps muttering "work life balance" etc but work is part -and a big part- of life and anyone happily working for himself/herself treats work as part of life-

I'm letting my hair down this weekend-that is if I can keep awake-but it's only Wednesday and I can't yet quite see the light of the weekend!