Running your own business can be fun. It can also be frustrating. One of the facts of business is that you can’t reliably build the business until you’re out of it. That is something that I see now. Monday is a heavy workload day for me and the first Monday of the month ends sooner for me than others because of a 3:00 meeting in Chesapeake. It is frustrating and annoying, and today is making it worse.
I agreed to have some visits moved to me while a staff member figured things out. Next time, as much as it pains me, those visits are going to stay in the scheduler until the staff member can figure things out. I need clarity of time and purpose in my day and having to bounce into the field when I am not expecting it doesn’t help. I now have to figure out a different workflow to today. It isn’t terrible. It isn’t even that bad, but it is frustrating.
It is important to be flexible with your workflow. It does make me wonder though if we gave up ourselves, promoted a GM, and simply let them catch everything the way we do how long would it be for our gross profit to get back to the same level. In other words what would be business look like if we exited now.
That likely isn’t a realistic solution, but it would ease my frustration. I made and plan my week around one schedule and suddenly an entirely different one emerges. That isn’t helpful and it creates stress. I recognize that the compression of time is one of my most stressful stressors and that it is a me issue, but it still doesn’t help my work week get off to a great start.
I am a person that needs structure and routine even if I know we should go with the flow as well. It makes things interesting at least and I know that I can at least get a little of the work done now before I leave to go do a morning visit and get ready to help with the kids. It would just be nice to be able to run plan A instead of plan B on days like this.
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