A New Morning

It has been an interesting few days. Our grocery trips have started to get more expensive again. The reason might be that I am buying diner at the grocery store again. I need to get myself to the US chef store again, but I need to check if it is really saving money or just the psychological difference between $206 and $168. That really isn’t that much of a difference when you think about it, and is it worth an extra trip?

That is what we’re dealing with right now. The difference of thirty-some dollars a week. That does add up to $120 a month which is pretty much what I’d pay at the chef store. Is it worth it? I don’t know. Maybe. The meat quality is better at the chef store, but it is also an extra trip and the meat has to be unpacked and put away.

Grocery shopping isn’t the most exciting thing someone could write about but it is where my mind went this morning, because the other thing is I have continued to play with things in the business and had a bit of a realization yesterday. When they talk about working on your business and working in your business my mind would just go blank. I never got the working on your business thing until yesterday.

I’ve been working on some fun marketing stuff alongside the SOPs and that is when I realized that working on your business is building a sandbox and working in your business is playing in the sandbox so create a sandbox that is fun to play in.

Most businesses start in a fit of rage inside an FTW moment. Like how dare Bill take 50% of my pay when I’m doing 90% of the work. What does that SOB do sitting behind his fancy desk. I’m going to do this myself. Walking off the job and straight into the courthouse to register a new business and then in six to twelve months learning exactly why you were only getting 50% because as a business owner you’re now getting closer to 30-40% having to pay insurance and taxes and marketing and a bunch of other expenses.

Most businesses start this way. They build the sandbox from the inside. That is why it is important to step outside the sandbox and make it a fun place to be. I think that is what I’m doing. At least I hope it is. It only took me nearly 11 years to get here.