You’ve Got All The Time In The World.

You’ve Got All The Time In The World.

 

It takes a lot of hard work to take care of the self. A few days ago I sat down and wrote out the things I wanted to do every day to make sure I was taking time to maintain certain activities for myself. So for the whole month, I want to journal, read, and go for a walk. After I completed the month, it was shockingly obvious how little time there was for anything else.

And if I was going to be able to get client work done and maintain my life outside of my workday on the other equally important things like being a father and tend to my relationship, I’d first better figure out how to maximize my time throughout the day while still allowing the time spent with my daughters, work, relationship and self care to flex and flow as they need to. This is why having a morning routine has been very helpful for my life, both for business and personal. Having some parts of my day be structured allows me the flexibility to choose what times of the day work best for me. In fact, most of the work I want to do for self-maintenance usually gets done before anyone else is the house is up, like journaling, meditating and planning my day.

After the kids are up, fed, and off to school I can then sprinkle the other activities I want to do in between my work day. Knowing how much time I have to do something opens up many more channels for creatively getting everything accomplished. If you are a go with the flow type person, like me, with tendencies to just let the day go how the day goes. Try writing your day down on paper for a month or two, then watch how the time you don’t have turns into more time than you need.

Patience

Patience

12.05.2017 6:51 am

I’ve always prided myself on how patient of a person I am and working with difficult clients is when I find I need my equanimity the most. I have a meeting with a client that is quickly proving to be a tough nut to crack. We have not been working together that long and I’ve already started finding difficulty pinpointing how we will get the most from our time together.

My ability to keep cool will help turn the potentially disastrous situation into something more pleasing. It’s the tough clients that teach us the most about our businesses and determine what kind of company we want to run for ourselves. Will we be chasing the money because that’s what pays the bills right now?

Or will we stand firm on our abilities and trust in the work we do? Because that’s the reason they hired us in the first place? Tough clients have a funny way of telling us there is more work to be done. Work that’s beyond just getting paid to complete an assignment. They are asking us to be problems solvers to that will help them change the way they see themselves and how that translates into how they run their business. So we should start there first.