So I’ve fallen off the back a few days with my blogging and I guess that’s why my topic for this entry is “Dodging Bullets”. Being self-employed is a strange deal and here’s what I mean. Your phone will not ring all day long and then suddenly four of your clients will call you at once. Only one of them gets you and the other 3 leave messages. You might have 2 months straight without any problems and then in the same week you might be trying to put out 8 fires all at once. These are the bullets and trying to dodge them so they don’t hurt your current efforts is a very true test of your own agility.

Agility is such an interesting word as I really think about it. I mean for me agility brings to mind visions of starting every day carrying a waiters tray with 8 full glasses of water and then starting to run as fast as you can while not spilling any water as you run. As you run though (which would be hard enough) you encounter strange obstacles and unexpected hurtles in unexpected places and somehow you have to clear these obstacles while not spilling any water. But while you are running your phone rings and that’s really the sound of the first bullet being fired. So you put your tray down on top of one of the obstacles so you can answer your phone. Now your obstacles are carrying your 8 glasses and they were never meant to do that. You are on your phone and you aren’t watching your 8 glasses very well and the obstacles keep coming and this process just iterates until 10:00 PM that night or maybe 2:00AM the next morning. So agility means don’t spill any water, clear all your obstacles and manage that phone or your dead.

So today started out just like any other day but honestly it quickly turned in to what the last 2 days turned into and here I am now writing about dodging bullets and I would if I had a chance but it seems like they all come point blank and so I just catch them somehow and keep running.

I think the message here for business owners is that same days you won’t be productive. Some days you are going to burn every resource you have just covering the unexpected. Plan on it. Make sure you leave time in your schedule to handle the unexpected and make sure you communicate to your clients that some unexpected things are going on. Most importantly don’t falter with your current work. Don’t break your stride. It might be tempting to let it all slide but if you do you’ll just get farther behind and the next day will pile on more and you’ll never make it.

Dodge Bullets my son and never tire of running the good race. Sorry today’s post is a bit on the lacking side. I’ll be adding more content as I have a chance but today this is what’s on my mind so I thought I’d write about it. That’s all for now. Time to pick up my glasses of water and keep going on my merry way.