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Find my mojo...?
I think this thought crosses my mind at least once a day ... ‘what’s the vision? What do I want to achieve? Tough question indeed ...often lost in the daily grind of the school run, work, mums taxi service, work, tea, tidy, sleep and repeat the next day, it is often difficult to focus on the overall vision of where I want to be both in life and work. Ok, the immediate answer is an easy one ... win the lottery, hire nannies and spend my days at beauty salons trying to stop the sudden attack of ageing! ... but realistically that’s never going to happen so I guess its plan B ... but that is the problem, it’s difficult to peg down exactly where I see myself in 6 months let alone five years. There is nothing I can do about all the kid and home stuff but I have set myself some achievable goals such as spend more time as a family around the dinner table, get the kids to help more with the housework and spend at least 4 hours outside at the weekend either walking, biking or playing in the park, finish all the jobs in the house that need finishing ... oh and the hardest bit get my family to share my dream and contribute ideas of their own! I have other family goals too such as more family holidays, spending more time alone with my husband (although if its watching football on TV then I might pass on that one) oh and to upgrade my faithful car to something more suited to weekends away and planned family road trips! I just need to add here that the invention of the people carrier has revolutionised family travel but I also need to say that I won’t be getting one any time soon!
So that’s my family life sorted ... now how do I make this all happen? More holidays means more money and new cars don’t come cheap and if I want a respectable hallway ... which currently embarrasses me every time I open the front door ... if I can actually open the front door that is due to the doorframe swelling over the years (summer is ok but in winter the postman passes parcels through the front window!!). It seems the answer is to increase my income to provide me and my family with all these things in life which will transform our currently chaotic lifestyle (here’s hoping!)
So it’s down to my business (well that and my husband’s business but let’s leave him out of it ... this is about me not him!). It has took a while for the penny to drop that in order to improve my life I need to improve or manage my business differently somehow. I need to plan, set targets and run tight financial controls ... how hard can it be? It’s actually not hard to do all these things and having had successful businesses over a long period of time then this stuff should come easy to me. But one thing always remains the same and that is the difficulty of balancing working on the business with working in it and this is hard to do ... one thing is for sure and that is that it’s not just me, there are thousands of small businesses out there trying to do the same thing and all encountering the same problems. The other problem is that it’s easy to set a goal, let’s say that I want to achieve a 20% growth in 12 months ... but it’s more difficult to determine how to do it and how to manage the extra time and resources I will need to achieve this goal. It’s also easy to say that in order to spend more time with my family then I might need to employ more staff ... but how would I pay them? Every time a goal is set it creates a whole host of other questions which all require work, research and most importantly the thing I seem to have least of ...TIME and so the circle continues. From experience the best way to achieve all of these things is to have someone to help you do it ...attend a course, employ an expert in creative businesses, someone whom has been there and done it, someone who understands the bottom line, the way my business works and won’t charge me the earth ...
Hang on a minute I have just described myself ... Well I suppose I could always go on my own course which I have developed with my business partner ... ‘Create your vision’ or employ myself as a ‘business mentor’ or attend one of my own ‘business surgeries’ ... but you see that creates a further dilemma ... how can I earn money from myself and how can I be objective? Ummm I guess I haven’t really thought that one through properly!
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