This is probably the strangest time of my professional career. Having transitioned from a service based business with proposals, scope of work docs and contracts (think consistent, predictable revenue that is business based) to a products based, transactional business (think unpredictable, semi-seasonal, consumer driven) I feel like I am drinking from a fire hose at times. The learning curve is vertical.
Lately my biggest obstacle is my thinking. Ok, really, it is an obstacle - and an asset - all the time. It's just that now I am wrestling with it more.
Case in point; my consistent feeling that things aren't happening fast enough around here, and I have to push harder to make it go faster. I am here to tell ya, it's exhausting.
What I am learning is to be patient. And to breathe. (The truth is, our company is growing by the day!) How am I doing that? I've started a Miracle Journal to remind me of all the incredible, amazing, out of the blue opportunities that are so frequent around here that I FORGET they happen. (How nuts is that?) I forget that, oh, we've teamed up with Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises to raise money for breast cancer. I forget that one of the premier non-profits in the nation asked us to come be on their team. I forget that we've been asked to export to Asia. I forget that we've assembled a rocking team that is literally lighting a match to the jet fuel inside our company.
It's so easy to look ahead for "what' next". I find daily entries in my Miracle Journal bring me right back to center, where I get to be grateful of all the little miracles happening all the time. Whew. That's the way to get the blood pressure down.
What miracles did you experience today?
