As we enter into a new decade of 2020 there is a great deal of hyper-focus on organizing, planning, goal setting, and creating vision boards. We spend hours with our planners, create to-do lists and of course, we prioritize our goals. I think these are all wonderful tools to help us with our practice and with life. However, what happens when we do all of this planning, but our day turns into a huge mess anyway?
That day happened and I lived through it even though the only thing I “accomplished” on my calendar was seeing my clients on time.
Even with the ultimate planning, life stuff just happens sometimes…. I consider myself fortunate as these types of days do not happen very often. But I do have days that often get rearranged or changed. Sometimes the day gets altered because I am too tired to write that blog or review a book. Other times, a past client calls and needs to be squeezed in that day. We all have to learn to accommodate and pivot.
Remember from your biology class Darwin’s survival of the fittest? It wasn’t about just being the strongest, it was about being clever, having the ability to cooperate, to camouflaged as needed; in other words, pivot or adapt.
For me to get my work done and to “survive” this day, I had to call in my team to step it up. I had to get the rain inside the office to stop. I took a deep breath and then called the landlord. The office staff got the mop and buckets to collect the water and prevent it from seeping onto the carpet. Another staff person volunteered to answer the phone. I had to change my mindset to “What MUST I do right now, today”. I had to reorganize based on priorities of what had to be done.
We had to move a few people to different offices for safety, I would see my clients at their allotted times and I would forgo my blogs and videos for the moment. I felt a bit overwhelmed and frustrated but I knew that my team would push on and we all would get through it.
Business, like life, has its major ups and downs this is normal. If we remember that, we can still grow our business even in hard times. We just have to work on our mindset, finding alternatives solutions, create a new plan and then take action.