Learning new tricks

Last week one of my coaching clients called to say she was giving up. Ginger had her own cookie business and she had been very successful. Everyone in town was raving about her liverwurst twist and salmon chip biscuits. It was about six months into business when she called me in tears. She had just made her first major mistake. 

 One day, she was so busy she shipped a huge order of liverwurst twists to a major customer who needed only salmon chip biscuits and needed them for a major event THAT VERY DAY! 

Needless to say, Ginger lost that major client. That was the first setback she had in her business, and she told me she thought it was a sign that she shouldn't be self employed. I told her to sit, lie down, and breath.

Yes, I told her, she made a mistake, and yes, she lost a customer, but she had many success stories up to that point. What she did wrong, we discussed, was she didn't know her limits. Now that she lost that customer, she was better able to serve the others. Ginger decided to hold off on pursuing new customers for a few month to focus on the ones she had. 

The story doesn't stop there. I just heard a local magazine had called and asked her to be featured in their latest "Best of the Best" issue for her newsest creation: beef bit blondies!

Compass

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If you can't do it alone ask a friend!

People tend to let themselves get too busy. They keep adding responsibilities and tasks to their schedules, forgetting they need to have fun and relax, too. I'm pretty good at having fun and relaxing, so I think I'm a good person to help others learn to take more time for themselves.

The best thing to do when you feel like you are running around everywhere, only to find you are running in a circle chasing your tail, is to ask for help. Yep, that's right, you don't have to do everything alone. If your spouse is better at fixing things than you are, ask that person to do it for you. If you are not very good at math, perhaps you can pay someone to do the bookkeeping for your business so you can focus on what you are good at.

Take me for example. I am good at finding things that are lost, so whenever something is lost my family sends me off to look for it. However, I am not good at getting things off high shelves because I am so small, so when I need to get something that is up high, I go and get a taller member of my family to help.

I think teamwork is the best way to get anything done!

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