Most of the time, I consider myself a rather flexible sort who can shuck and jive with the best of them. But, then, there are those days when there are so many changes and adjustments that I truly feel as though I am doing a rather poor job of keeping up!
Have you ever had one of those days in your home business when no matter how alert, focused, and brilliant you felt when you started the day—you are totally thrown for a loop in terms of keeping up with what the day (and your customers, clients, and vendors) throw at you? I expect that on days when I’m out of sorts or feeling a bit sleepy or distracted that things might not go so well, but when I’m ready and “into it” as a friend of mine says, it surprises me when I spend one of those days just trying to hang on.
The only saving grace that I can see on such days in my business is that everything is temporary. I can only hope that if I stay reasonably “in the ballpark” with changes and curveballs, I’ll be able to make up some ground the next day (or the next week) and things will get back to feeling a little more solid. There can almost be an element of comedy to those days when one thing after another goes wrong or awry—the phone keeps ringing, problems and adjustments keep popping up, and you just know that something amazingly challenging is walking in the door any moment. I remember I had a grandparent who used to say: “It never rains but it pours” which, I suppose, was his way of saying that there are just those days, when once the clouds burst, it’s all you can do to just keep from getting soaked!
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