Being a business owner, or even just a human, but most certainly adding some extra flare to that by being a business owner, has its ups and downs.
One thing that’s really helped me lately is thinking about things on a larger time horizon. We’ve recently hired two sales people and a customer success person, and have our alot of energy and effort into them, but things don’t always go the way you expect. We had to fire one sales person, and the other is not as strong as we’d hoped. We’ve put a lot of energy into him, and are continuing to do so, but sometimes it gets us down that the results aren’t there. I’d be lying if I just kept putting out jolly podcasts that everything’s going well, that’s not what this is about. It’s about being real about where things are at. We’ve lost leads supplies we thought we could count on, have had a slow sales period and have had turn over issues and delays on some big jobs we could have used the cash for. But I’ve been putting it all into time horizons. On the grand scale of my life, how big are these issues really? And how valuable are the lessons I am learning from them? I think extremely valuable, not to say it’s not a little demotivating in moments, but I do like the idea that it’s all a big lesson and every bump along the way improves my knowledge and skills and my ability to handle challenge.
I’ve been thinking about what would I do if I had absolute freedom, and in the same thought, I’m the only person telling myself I don’t have absolute freedom. Thoughts about projects, the way I’d run the business, what I’d sell, the culture is create if I was doing this all on my own. Shane and I have thought about selling the business again. It’s all running through our heads, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with exploring options, there’s no right way, or a way it should or shouldn’t be. Should sand shouldn’t are usually other peoples imposed values. What is important to us? Are Shane and I still on the same page and would we still be doing this the way we are doing it if we were doing it separately…
