In life we are always bouncing between lanes. Going back and forth from responsibility to responsibility. Asking ourselves who do I need to be today and where am I needed. Looking at everything and watching how things flow when my finger isn’t on the pulse keeps me bouncing and unlike Jevon Evans I am not bouncy. I don’t like moving from here to there and back again.
I am tired, worn down, and beat up. I would just like to rest, but getting all these systems to settle at once is nearly impossible. I had Indeed open on a recently closed tab and it is beyond. I launched hiring the other day, sorted through 14 applications on Wednesday and now have 16 more waiting for me. I attempted a handoff for the phone interview yesterday but did so in casual conversation and that handoff was fumbled.
But I am handing off to another person that is behind and overworked. The problem with drawing yourself higher and higher into a business is you end up expanding the duties of the roles you step into as you step into them and while hiring a marketing manager, a bookkeeper, a sales manager, and a hiring manager would all make the business more money in the long run all those salaries would be more than our current revenue. It is daunting to look at. Impossible to organize. And it is only one of the focus areas of life.
A lot of business owners will talk about the sacrifice required and then explain how they neglected the other duties of their life. Time and money are very connected and in proper money management it is suggested that you set aside the savings first and then dive into fixed and variable expenses. Time should be the same way. Set aside time to be saved first and then your fixed and variable times before getting to the wants.
It is a question we should ask every day. Where am I needed most today? Is it hiring? Is it supporting Roland at his student of the month award presentation? Is it taking care of Abigail while Lara works? Is it getting the marketing done? Is it pre-scheduling the next client newsletter? Is it writing the next blog post? Is it dropping off the EMD check for the offer Campbell Drive Properties put in yesterday? Is it visiting my mother? Is it dealing with whatever fire starts in any of these lanes? Every one of these feels urgent and important and I can’t do them all, so now it becomes about figuring out which chainsaw I allow to drop.
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