Like-----Create a new product? Beat the bushes for new clients? Start planning for the buying season that starts in August and ends on December 31st? Whatever your plans are for increasing your revenues this year -- it's high time you get moving on them!
Some of you have started posting comments - Thank you! It tells me to keep doing what works. The hard part about blogging for business owners is writing what others may want to read.
Now for something a little different that may hit a nerve for those of you who have had careers the past 20, 30 or more years. What event will let you know it's time to let it go?
When you make enough money? When your part-time business makes the same income as your full-time career? Maybe you plan to stay on until they find your cold, dead body sitting at your desk! Whenever that event or defining moment is, plan now for it. Mine came today.
As some of you may know, my training and 'career' was/is as an accountant. Over the years the industry has changed - more for the worse than the better. Enron was only the tip of a very big iceberg in accounting. Technology makes some of the work easier & faster but the bottom line is 1 + 1 still equals 2. Then there's the other side of the coin - incompetence, fraud & sloppy training at the college level makes for an industry that needs tighter standards.
My defining moment came today when someone told me 'You're too methodical. No one cares about the details.' Unfortunately most of the time - it's true. The trend over the past 10 years or so has been for more businesses to hire employees based solely upon having a college degree rather than what the applicant brings to the table in the way of real skills.
This is the year I leave the profession. It's been a fun ride - now it's time to go. What those of you still working a day job may want to do is ask yourself some hard questions:
A. What have you given up for your career?
B. How much more are you willing to give up?
C. What will be your defining moment?
D. When will you know it's time to go?
That's it for today and I'll leave you with this
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo
