This is a week to review. Before you get into the 'head space' of the holidays and spending time away from work with your family and friends this is a good time to reflect on the year that was. In terms of your business this is also a good time to review the strengths and weaknesses of 2015 and to set some objectives for 2016 if you have not done so already. We have already set our 2016 business goals after spending time with our team in November. This week has been about reflecting on our wandering lifestyle, how to diversify our blogs and how 2016 should be different from a lifestyle point of view.
In May we put a renewed focus into our own CK Golf newsletters and blog posts. We have sent 32 newsletters - one per week since May 1st. We have written 51 blog posts almost equally spit between our
'Biz Blog' and our '
19th Hole Blog'. We have fewer readers of our newsletter but those that read it are more engaged. Our website traffic continues to increase the more blogs that we write.
In another area of our life we decided to review our travel. This year seemed like it was a busy one with lots of time dedicated to, and wasted by, moving from place to place. Here is the summary...
- 10,000 air miles (+1,000 extra for Jeff) on WestJet, Alaska Airlines and Harbour Air with 80% being business miles.
- 15,000 land miles. This may seem like very little to people who commute daily but for us this is the most we have driven in a year since moving to Vancouver in 2008. About 30% were personal miles from a 6 week road trip.
- 600 BC Ferry Miles. The 30 nautical mile trip from Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo is becoming a bit tiresome. We will be back to the float plane when the weather improves in the spring.
- 102 Hotel Nights (+5 extra for Jeff). We were away from home 28% of the year. We like to travel so this was not really an issue except when we consider the time 'wasted' moving from place to place and the cost of having a vacant apartment.
We are re-thinking the way we do business and where we live. Location Independence? Sooner or Later?
