Running your business and time management
Sometimes I just want to throw up my hands and give up on managing time at all. We are one week away from a huge event and I feel blind-sided by the fact that my husband has volleyball tournaments all weekend. It’s me and the kids and my biz and no one to rescue me. Boo hoo poor me. The only thing is that it’s stressing me out completely, and I wonder how I always end up here, a week or two away from an event, wishing I had better time managment skills.
I think I would recommend to everybody that you break your project down into the smallest pieces possible and enforce your deadlines. This is my advice to myself. Actually, it’s repeatedly the advice to myself. And I’m sure I ramble about it.
But we do get a little better each time. I’ve done some of the things on the to-do, and so far, I think we’re OK. But this weekend is a huge thing, I can’t believe I didn’t realize he’d be gone on Sunday too. Three days of day-long tournaments. But this is the reality of running a business and raising two young kids, something has to give…there’s give and take, push and pull. And you know, I need to lighten up a little too - it happens, we do our best, and we’re still with our kids most of the time. It helps to keep my priorities in perspective.
I need to flip my attitude. At least we are sticking to our priorities. The must-haves ARE happening; like shopping bags and the catalog - print materials. The other problem with the whole weekend of tournaments is that my husband has a lot of graphics work on his shoulder for the big b*Fab event.
I wish I had eight hands. My hands right now are off to get the kids to school. Someday I’ll have an assistant; someday I’ll have an assistant. Someday, we’ll get it all together…
Add comment April 20th, 2007