Paying attention to your business is more difficult than you think

# Chapter 246

Pay attention to your business. - Masterminds

Well duh? Or is it? If you are like me, and like many other’s, we are in business because this what we want to do. Like I have a Leadership and Development NGO because I want to do Leadership and Development, not because I want to run a business. Do you see the problem? Even though I work full time at Leadership and Development, I spend far too little of my time and energy and focus ON the business. In fact as I sit and start calculating this week’s work that I am planning, I see once again that I have ignored the Business and am spending all my time consulting and training. This will not work to our advantage and we have to change it or both the business and the work will suffer. This process this morning has already changed my day significantly.

I wonder how to make that happen each day? For both of us? These Nutella inspired and coffee-fueled mini-chapters each day are pointless unless they help us do the right thing. These simple questions pondered, are far more paying attention to my business, than merely working in my business. So perhaps we need to ask a series of pointed question each day before we commit to a set of actions? While I have all the key legal requirements for the business already set on my calendar, perhaps I should think through the key advancement and progress steps that could be taken for the business and put them on the calandar as well? As you can see (well perhaps you can’t) I am typing more and more slowly as my attention is turning to my business and all the ways that I haven’t been paying attention and I want to get upstairs to my office and rectify that immediately. Pay attention to your business! Its too easy to get distracted.