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I heard from a good friend of mine today whom I haven’t spoken to since January and it was great to catch up. He’s one of those friends whom you don’t need to see or hear from for a while but when you do you just pick up where you left off and the connection is still there.
What I love about this guy is his passion and energy for life. He’s always so buzzed and positive, and he infects everyone around him with his happy vibes: I love it!
So anyway, we were chatting and catching up on the goss – “what’s been going down, dude?!” – and I shared with him our adventures of moving to Brisbane and how we’re settling in. We started talking business (he’s Managing Partner of a privately-owned Advertising Agency) and I was telling him how things are going here in Brisbane and the success I’ve had since I arrived. Talk moved quickly to the economic downturn and how that may affect our businesses. My friend loves giving advice (and I love hearing it from him) and gave me some true gems of wisdom to help me angle my business offering in the future. After that he said to me some very wise words:
“Keep it simple Ave!”
This single statement can be applied across all facets of our lives. We over-complicate it with fears, concerns, thoughts of the past/future/unknown, other people’s issues, and a bunch of stuff we have no control over. Yet if we all sat back for just a few minutes a day and adopted a zen-like approach to our life and kept things simple, imagine how much better we’d feel!
In our everyday working life there are a zillion things that appear to add stress or confusion to our day. How we handle it is completely up to us. If you’re a Business Owner you’ve got even more pressure on you! And the buck stops with you, I know. So rather than try to not worry about everything you’ve got to do (which is almost impossible), how about keeping things simple and only dealing with the things that you SHOULD be doing as the Owner? Leave the other stuff to the people who are responsible. Delegate. Outsource. Re-align tasks. If necessary – downsize. Focus on your core business instead of everyone elses. Allocate time to invest in your staff (remember that they are the ones who make you money). And most importantly – allocate time to invest in yourself.
Here’s to a productive and calmer week, keeping things simple:)
