A numbers game...People

One concept that I am learning about overall in business is that finding good people is a continuous feat. In the service industry we are constantly hiring and it is a numbers game.  In creating business, I have learned that this is the flow and what I am really looking for is the flow of the right people.  You can not teach people to be responsible and working with responsible people is much easier than working with someone who has been in the trade for years sometimes.  Responsibility and integrity go hand in hand.  

Being an entrepreneur is problem solving and being in the service industry is hiring & firing. Eventually if you do it long enough, you build a good team but it is always changing.  

I am learning so much about building foundations and if the foundation is strong then putting people in the mix can be much easier and not so overwhelming.  The next position I hire for is a personal assistant, someone to do my to-do lists.  They wont need to understand my business, but only to understand me.  Goal date... August. 

May- Planting Seeds & setting boundaries

According to My happiness project, In May I was to focus on self-care.  My goals were to get a holistic treatment each week, get to sleep earlier and to create a space for myself and to go there.  Just by default, it is already working out great.  In our new home, my bedroom is my retreat.  I bought a new bed and dresser with two end tables.  I purchased two because of feng shui I wanted to draw in the energy of a new happy and healthy relationship.  By creating this space for myself, I have never slept so well.   I am trying to get to sleep earlier or at least into bed earlier so I would say I am on track there.  I had a massage last week and I will be getting one Wednesday too.  I have been much more aware of the foods that make me feel good and walking the dog at least 3-4 days a week.  I want the 40's to be the best years of my life, and I think they look pretty good on me.  

In business, I took a couple of weeks off to let my new managers step in.  They are doing such a good job and it feels great to know that the daily tasks are getting taken care of, but also the foundation has become much stronger.  However I did find that I can not just step away, these are my businesses and I need to be present.  This month we are getting our computer program up and running and laying out the details according to my vision.  The new mission statement has been written and we have decided to re brand the holistic center which is needed.  

Probably the biggest advance for me has been setting boundaries.  To be honest, this was not easy for me.  I am a little bit of a push over until I am not anymore and this is where the problem lies as when I draw the line there is nothing tactful about it.  I am working on setting compassionate boundaries as Daphne had pointed out because most of the time I just blurt it out, due to built up emotions.  To be unclear is to be unkind, is the quote I have in my office.  

The gifts from my mother

Last week at CBC, we were asked to reflect on our moms and offer up the best advice that they gave us growing up to help in our businesses.  As we went around the room, I had a chance to ponder what it was that I learned growing up.  First and foremost, I learned to work hard.  I am not sure this was ever spoken, however this I witnessed.  My parents were modest people who loved to travel, worked hard and provided for their family without question.  I also learned sacrifice and only as an adult did I really see the sacrifice of my mother. I saw how she kept our family together selflessly as she hoped for our futures to be bright even if it didn't allow for her to flower.  In that sacrifice, she also taught me that I was equal to any man in business or in life.  This may have been the greatest gift which show up for me in independence.  It also allowed me to always move forward with out blocks of seeing too many lines of separation.  She taught me that people are basically good and to trust.  I learned the value of looking into the eyes of another as I shake hands and to honor my word.

Sometimes as we go through the ups and downs in life it is not always easy to be in gratitude for all that I have been given and the incredible start that I had in life, but as I reflect and take this time to honor my mother I realize if I am going to show up in life, I should show up for her.