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Life Happens
By Jeanette Cates | August 25, 2008
If you are an Online Business Owner, then you have plans and goals that you’ve set out for yourself. You have a schedule and a to-do list that you follow. But what do you do when things go awry?
I’ve had this experience in the past month. I had a tight schedule for a product launch, a new workshop and revising multiple websites during the month of August. But guess what? Life Happened.
My Mother-in-Law died unexpectedly in another city. Naturally we dropped everything and travelled to take care of funeral arrangements and getting together with family who came into town. Settled affairs. Grieved. Life (and death) Happen.
That same week one of my daughters moved and as we always do, the “Cates Family Moving Company” gathered and helped. I’m in charge of taking care of grandkids and keeping them safely out of the movers’ way. Their other grandmother took care of feeding one and all. While it was fun, it was a lot of backbreaking work. Life Happens.
Another of my daughters called last week to tell us that our carefully orchestrated plans and travel arrangements for the arrival of her third child – and our sixth grandchild – were changing as she spoke. While he was scheduled to arrive September 5 – he decided he wanted to be an August baby and showed up two weeks early. Life Happens.
All together I will have slept at my house only 9 days this month. I’ve made calls from various family guest rooms and taken care of most of my email via my cell phone. It’s not ideal working conditions, but taking care of my family is more important.
So how do you handle it when Life Happens to YOU? I’ll tell you what I did. I took a deep breath, put my to-do lists on the back burner, tore up the schedules and just decided to enjoy the people around me while we were together.
You see, the work that has gone into my business over the past years ensured I would have income coming in throughout the month. I knew I didn’t have to worry about paying the bills, because my bookkeeper has them prescheduled to be paid automatically. Everything else could be done online.
I can’t tell you how good it felt knowing that I didn’t have to worry about me and my business. Instead I could focus on those I love who needed me more than my business did.
What’s YOUR plan for Life Happening to You? Start now to Organize Your Online Business so that you are worry-free and free to enjoy your loved ones.
Topics: Online Business, Success |