Uncle Travelling Matt .com — the personal site of Matt Gifford

After somewhat wet weather yesterday it was warm and sunny for a change today. Christmas this year was quite good due to the careful dropping of hints (and product catalog numbers, lol) on my part.

On the other side of the equation, I gave my brother a sick Tony Hawk Birdhouse complete skateboard. This is his first skateboard and let’s just say teaching a seven year old to skate requires a lot of patience, especially since he’d been up past midnight the night before!

It’s been a busy week, weeks actually, especially considering the length of time this post has been sitting in the saved drafts folder. While, the title might suggest otherwise this post isn’t actually about relationships, personal ones at least.

I’ve recently hired someone to help with my business, and I’ll be the first to say I’ve waited far too long. Partly [ok almost completely] because I didn’t want to give up control of things, as they say, “if you want it done right, do it yourself”… However, this is changing and I’m learning the joy of delegation and also letting people figure how to go about doing the work. I’m trying my best to put the skills I learnt during the October management course to good use, and so far things have been going really well.

The best part of breaking up? …Letting go, and it’s a good feeling.

I wish Italian had a direct translation of “nice” in English, so I wouldn’t have to figure out which “nice” I mean all the time, especially because the reason I’m usually using “nice” in the first place is because I didn’t want to use a more descriptive word!!… ug.