This has always been one of my favorite old sayings—mostly because it speaks to me and my temperament: I am one of those people who SO has a tendency to get going too fast and make mistakes; the type of person who might start a project or test without reading all the instructions—so I need to be reminded to slow down and take my time so that I don’t make a mess of things…
When it comes to a small home business, we often think that the more we do in terms of quantity, the more balls we juggle in the air and the more customers and prospects and networking events we attend to—the better. Well, there might be SOME truth to this, but there is also such a thing as getting too much going on and then the balls start to drop and mistakes get made.
Have you ever had the experience of being totally stressed out with your work, rushing around trying to meet deadlines or getting things done without feeling like you were really problem-solving and then found that when you had to sit still for 15 minutes, the answer just popped into your head? How about getting so busy that you start to forget key things and make wasteful mistakes? Both of these are signs that things are out of control and not only are we NOT multi-tasking, we may actually be creating more work for ourselves than we need to be.
There are times in our businesses when we need to pump up the volume and get things moving—but most of us don’t have to try to operate at hyper-speed all the time. It is okay to slow things down, let some space slip in between tasks and take some time and care over the tasks we need to complete. Chances are we will make less mistakes if we do.
Also: Keeping it Small on Purpose
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