Bøker av Alan Forrest Smith

Today's date is November 16th, 2021. I am writing to you at exactly 21:51 pm. It's pitch black outside. The only thing I have heard is two large foxes that play and fight outside almost every night. It feels the same, but the reality is right now life isn't the same. The thoughts in this book are expanded thoughts I had written over the period of the pandemic. There are also some fictional stories based on real events. There are also a rambling or two of words some will call poetry, but I simply call them some thoughts I am having so I write them as I think them. It's just a few months short of two years since this pandemic began. Even as I write this to you the politicians can change their thinking on a daily basis. Mostly their thinking has been specifically designed to add human fear to push compliance. If this was ever a pandemic of health that ended a long time ago. This is now a pandemic of power where career and salvationist politicians feel they have almost touched death, and appear to feel they have the gift of life in their hands. They don't. But this book isn't really about those people in control. It is about something much bigger, something more powerful and something that directly affects you and me. That something is an idea and how that idea like the smallest seeds can become the biggest of trees. I also wanted to mention that it is so easy for us all to accept what is going on, accept the changes and go with the flow. That is appearing to be a mistake that could cost you, me, us all dearly. These are not times to let go of what humans fought over for millenniums. That thing is freedom to do the things we need to do to be happy free people. Freedoms to travel the world, the freedom of choice and something as simple as sitting in a coffee shop. Incredibly as I write to you today Austria have decided to divide their nation into two parts. They now have two 'legal' classes of citizens. The clean and the unclean, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. As I edit this book Austria have also announced that the unvaccinated will face jail if they refuse to get vaccinated by February 1st. Can they really throw over two million citizens into jail? It looks as though Germany is heading the same perverse way. Police can be seen everywhere checking the papers of everyone on the streets or any location outside a private home. This is not a time for lovers of truth and freedom to relax. If this shocking change can happen in countries like those it might be coming to you.

This should be read and re-read by:Salon owners, salon managers and salon team builders. Forget untested salon trends. Salon Sampler is time-proven with results that took one salon from zero clients to booked up for the next six weeks.So simple you probably won't want to do it. As an extreme salon mentor that has worked win salons for decades, I get asked this question a lot.'Alan if you had to do just one thing to pack out any salon what would it be?'An interesting question in a time where I meet salon owners that want more and more of new things that work when in actual fact is it possible to do just one thing so brilliantly well - it is all you need?I know the answer because the answer is the single most effective column building strategy I have used myself for well over 17-years to take my own salons to Number one. To pack out all of my stylists and keep them packed from week-to-week for years!Here is the ultimately brilliant salon building strategy that I would still make a priority to use today and I promise you if you do it properly if you listen closely and IF you stick to the simple punk rules I put down for you, there is a huge chance it could transform your salon very quickly or even faster!We have one stylist on record going from a graduate with no column to senior with a packed column taking £1,900 per week doing this single strategy.I will go a step further and say this… This program will very easily increase your salon client list and columns by 25% in a single week if you stick to the simple rules. The greatest salon and column building tool you'll ever own A short and easy read Simple principles to follow Easy step-by-step instructions Expert and salon tested advice Fast delivery We deliver anywhere on Earth

I'm not sure why you'd want to read this book. I can't make any great claims of taking over the hairdressing world or winning endless hairdressing awards. I never had fifty stylists breaking endless records and I never had a salon that turned over millions in pounds in haircuts or hairdressing services. Yet looking back at my 17-years as a salon owner I feel did do something pretty amazing in my own little world of hairdressing that you as a salon owner can look at and feel inspired by. Before I did that amazing little thing I had to accept this one thing about my life as a hairdresser and salon owner. It was this. Being a great hairdresser was and will never enough to create a successful hairdressing business. It just isn't. Your great and successful salon business only arrives when you begin letting the public know you are a great hairdresser with a great salon. It's about knowing; managing, aiming, pushing, directing and marketing your salon in ways that could cost you nothing and give you everything. It's also about finding and using systems that are actually proven to work and work fast in a salon like yours. And I know that because I've done that for many salons as a mentor and also done that for my own salons between 1989 and 2003. I know for an absolute certainty that there are powerful things that must be done daily to make sure you have a hair salon business that is a success and that in turn gives you a much happier life. Happiness comes from doing the things in life you really feel the need to do. Your salon business either supports that or might actually be preventing that because of the lack of results. If you are not making enough money or unable to cover your bills or pay your stylists or even unable to pay yourself you'll have a huge problem and that huge problem will make you unhappy with your life. A lack of money when you're working hard can be a real killer. Yet it is fixable and can be fixed fast. I had to slowly and sometimes painfully learn the art of turning my salon into a real business. A business that could give me the kind of life I wanted. The life I wanted then was really a life built around a young family that needed to be fed, looked after and nourished. I had to create a business that would do just that. That's exactly what I eventually did. I could not afford for it to fail. Failure for me really meant no food on the table that really was my personal bottom line. Eventual success in my salons gave me the ability to build my own stunning five-bedroomed converted barn on a farm, have around a one acre plot of garden with it's own orchard and space for my kids to play around and have the time and money to be able to live a more enhanced life as a hairdresser. I made mistakes, plenty of them. Some mistakes were huge and almost cost me my salon and salons on more than one occasion. I will share those stories with you as you read along. Yet, after 17-years with my salons and the hairdressing business I discovered, learned, uncovered and found some of the most incredible ways to make sure not only did we all stay busy but the phone rang constantly, the appointment book was packed and we even had a long list of clients waiting for a last minute appointment. This was an incredible achievement for a school dropout, ex-landscape gardener and punk rocker to hit the top slot in a town of 35 very established salons. Anyway, be sure of this. Whatever you are going through in your salon right now is pretty normal. Even the salon stars of this world have troubles and issues that would leave you jaw-dropped in total disbelief if you knew them. I know, I've worked with some of these guys and seen it first hand in the biggest to the smallest of salons. It is normal. It is fixable and can be fixed faster than you will know right now.

A classic Christmas story for children and adults. A story of love, morality, and hope wrapped up in five small stories that ask the question - Does man deserve Christmas.God says no.Thomas the little angels says yes.God gives Thomas an opportunity to prove him wrong.Thomas is sent to Earth.His wings have gone.His powers have gone.He is now human.Thomas has just hours to prove humans are still good and they should be allowed to keep Christmas.If he fails not only will Christmas be gone forever but Thomas will never be allowed back in heaven and will die as a man.Gripping, refreshing and current.If you love Christmas you'll love this story.