If we are running a business for ourselves there ought to be a lot of fun. But what constitutes ‘fun’ is different for each person. What do you enjoy most, think of as fun, in your business?
I am really pleased with my productivity today and I am sure that is due to the amount of rest I had yesterday, and well over two hours’ meditation with an hour of yoga on top of that. This morning I felt quite groggy, which I expect is a result of lots of stress releasing, and then gradually I shifted up through the gears and managed to achieve a lot.
And the biggest achievement is that I sailed through the part which I find to be not fun. Unusually, I believe, I don’t enjoy planning promotional material, thinking about posters, flyers and stationery, getting things printed or anything visual. I’m not a very visual person; I’m all about thinking and words. I will happily write the copy but the rest of it is a challenge. So it was great to find that I easily and quickly decided on the flyer and business card design and copy that I wanted and sent off the order. It helps that the overall image has already been chosen, for the moment. It’s a job I can put off for ages and, to be honest, this is why I don’t have enough promotional material and people are always asking for leaflets and I either have to come up empty handed or print something out myself. Not terribly professional!
Having done that, I had a quick stop at my mother’s to try and progress some of her ongoing legal challenges and then planted myself at Crowne Plaza Five Lakes Golf and Country Club to spend the afternoon writing. The clever thing here was that I am due to attend a circuit class at 6pm so I can’t go anywhere. It’s just me and my laptop in the Sports Bar and nothing to do but write the bits and pieces I have been putting off.
Now, writing is fun for me. It’s easy and it flows. But when I am at home I can find all sorts of other things to do instead, and that’s how the procrastination happens. Coming to Five Lakes, which is just seven minutes’ drive from home, needs to become a regular habit so that I can keep up with the articles and blog posts that I have promised to write and also work on my next book!
So having done the ‘not fun’ this morning, I created a plan to enable myself to do the ‘fun’ this afternoon. And it has all worked superbly. In Mind Calm we say that ‘stillness is the secret to success,’ and my experience after yesterday’s big dose of stillness bears that out.
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