Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Split Pea Gumbo for Women in Business: Fetching Rocks
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Multi-Tasking The Laws of Business Interuptions.
When I began this business back in 2007, with no capital, my ideas & dreams and of course the novelty of owning my own business was like the eyes being bigger than the stomach at dinner time. Innocence is blissful in so many ways. Even at my age, bright, beautiful ideas have no bounders or guideline of limitations. We (women
have this innate ability to see the future in a band of full color & grand possibilities before we allow the interruptions of laws and facts to cloud our ambitions. We would never allow such a distraction to deter' us from our desires and powerful ideas. Being the powerful spirits that we are, life isn't allow to confront our dreams & ambitions with TAX LAWS, Insurance Coverage, Worker Compensation Coverage,OSHA Requirements, etc..etc..The list goes on and completely fills a file cabinet. The accountant fills another.
With every new contract, one that gives a better comfort zone & a small percentage of increase to profits, along arrives the unforeseen requirement that by some law must be put into effect.
Today I ask my insurance company the one question we are never to ask; "Well, Mr. Gordon, now that we have all the IWIF coverage and Liability coverage up to 1 million per incident, do I have all areas covered to ensure government contract
provision? The response was very direct & powerful, He replied; " Never ask your insurance agent that question" "Because, as a matter of fact, you still need to look at........he & I agreed to wait for the next bigger contract to implement higher coverage(s).
For those woman that understand "multi-tasking", well the world of Business as an owner, there is no real understanding nor terms to describe the real life of Multi-tasking. I've come to realize this isn't something one is given as a birth right. One must work at it & learn how to efficiently become proficient at it. Or you find you've written into a document what was said to you on the phone, or you've faxed papers to the wrong company, or even said "I love you" to a sub-contractor when hanging up, only to realize afterward that those standard words said to your family were spoke from habit due to multi-tasking untrained.
The big question is how do you teach yourself such an important & very required asset, when you've always been able to simply focus on one task at a time all your life. Real multi-tasking doesn't apply to what we woman understanding while juggling family events, household duties, shuffling soccer games. This is like Mars verses Pluto. Totally new zone & environment. An outer-self experience, to say the least.
Re-learning the deeper side of "focus" is important, but requires full attention of training and relining habitual procedures utilized for years. Organizational practice applies additional abilities to this problem, however the law of interruptions is common occurrence during every day in business. Therefore provides little comfort or assurance.
There is an unspoken of arena in the business world that everyone is semi aware. And that is all the needs, demands and requirement aren't going away. Tomorrow my phone call, emails, invoices, documents & responses are still in the same place I left them and all those important calls or response are to others just as busy as I am. Most associates are at the high level tasking and need those reprieves every now & then.
Remove the pressures clouded with nerve winching timeline creating a high level need for multi-tasking until tomorrow from time to time, just to allow for a breath of calm & faith that all will be just fine with anyone waiting to hear from you or for that signature, fax, document to be sent.
When tomorrow arrives still with the list of "to do's:, take one at a time until the laws of interruption create a need for four pair of hands & remember to proof read everything after a phone call. This is how one learns to multi-task as a business owner in today's busy market.
have this innate ability to see the future in a band of full color & grand possibilities before we allow the interruptions of laws and facts to cloud our ambitions. We would never allow such a distraction to deter' us from our desires and powerful ideas. Being the powerful spirits that we are, life isn't allow to confront our dreams & ambitions with TAX LAWS, Insurance Coverage, Worker Compensation Coverage,OSHA Requirements, etc..etc..The list goes on and completely fills a file cabinet. The accountant fills another.
With every new contract, one that gives a better comfort zone & a small percentage of increase to profits, along arrives the unforeseen requirement that by some law must be put into effect.
Today I ask my insurance company the one question we are never to ask; "Well, Mr. Gordon, now that we have all the IWIF coverage and Liability coverage up to 1 million per incident, do I have all areas covered to ensure government contract
provision? The response was very direct & powerful, He replied; " Never ask your insurance agent that question" "Because, as a matter of fact, you still need to look at........he & I agreed to wait for the next bigger contract to implement higher coverage(s).
For those woman that understand "multi-tasking", well the world of Business as an owner, there is no real understanding nor terms to describe the real life of Multi-tasking. I've come to realize this isn't something one is given as a birth right. One must work at it & learn how to efficiently become proficient at it. Or you find you've written into a document what was said to you on the phone, or you've faxed papers to the wrong company, or even said "I love you" to a sub-contractor when hanging up, only to realize afterward that those standard words said to your family were spoke from habit due to multi-tasking untrained.
The big question is how do you teach yourself such an important & very required asset, when you've always been able to simply focus on one task at a time all your life. Real multi-tasking doesn't apply to what we woman understanding while juggling family events, household duties, shuffling soccer games. This is like Mars verses Pluto. Totally new zone & environment. An outer-self experience, to say the least.
Re-learning the deeper side of "focus" is important, but requires full attention of training and relining habitual procedures utilized for years. Organizational practice applies additional abilities to this problem, however the law of interruptions is common occurrence during every day in business. Therefore provides little comfort or assurance.
There is an unspoken of arena in the business world that everyone is semi aware. And that is all the needs, demands and requirement aren't going away. Tomorrow my phone call, emails, invoices, documents & responses are still in the same place I left them and all those important calls or response are to others just as busy as I am. Most associates are at the high level tasking and need those reprieves every now & then.
Remove the pressures clouded with nerve winching timeline creating a high level need for multi-tasking until tomorrow from time to time, just to allow for a breath of calm & faith that all will be just fine with anyone waiting to hear from you or for that signature, fax, document to be sent.
When tomorrow arrives still with the list of "to do's:, take one at a time until the laws of interruption create a need for four pair of hands & remember to proof read everything after a phone call. This is how one learns to multi-task as a business owner in today's busy market.
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