The Business Meeting
Back on Wednesday I talked about the point that we had reached with our business and admitted that we had realised that the business was running us and not us running the business. You will find that post here.
In that post I mentioned that we were going to sit down and have a business meeting to work out some ways of reclaiming what we felt we had lost and we had that business meeting over several cups of coffee yesterday.
We divided a page in a notebook into four sections and labelled the sections:
- What/Who We Want to Keep
What/Who We Want to Ditch
What We Want to Change
What We Want to Add
The meeting went really well and was quite productive but perhaps not quite in the way we wanted.
By the time we had finished the ‘keep’ section contained most of the names of the people/things we already do.
What we want to ditch listed just one name of a business we no longer want to work for - and we had actually stopped working for them several weeks ago.
What we want to add now lists quite a few new things that we want to do and what we wanted to change also holds a few entries.
When you think about it what we ended up with was not quite what we set out to achieve - in fact we’re not quite sure where all those new ideas came from … but that is often the way our business meetings go. We did decide to think about it some more and have another business meeting over coffee on Saturday.
This time though I’m not going to take the ‘What We Want to Add’ list with me. If I did that who knows how much more we could add to it.
But, looking back on yesterday, I was quite interested to note that by dinner time last night we had both achieved a whole lot more than we had in any other day this week and we had both cleaned up some old jobs that had been hanging around and were really getting us down.
November 16th, 2005 at 4:17 am
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