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July 7th, 2010 in Uncategorized
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Tags: business coaching, Business Development, Intention
Today I booked the entire day to make business development calls. It would be perfect, I thought. I had no coaching calls booked and no trips to the city to make.
Instead of perfect it was a perfect storm of getting nothing done. I could have predicted I wouldn’t spend the whole day on business development (BD). I know better. Whenever I clear the slate like this to make BD calls, it rarely happens. The truth is: I work better when I am busy and need to jam calls in around other meetings. How about you?
In my case, things didn’t go as planned in large part due to nature and technology. Here’s the rundown of the day:
5 a.m. – get woken by the woodpecker (try to sleep again with some success until about 6:30);
6:30- 8:30 a.m. – some combination of breakfast and watching an episode of The Wire. At this cottage, I have turned into one of those “strange” people who watches dramatic TV before the real day begins. I both blame and thank my friend Jen for encouraging me to get hooked on The Wire;
8:30 a.m. – at my desk (a.k.a. the dining room table at the cottage) fussing around deciding on whom to call first; on my first attempted call I find out my long distance plan is disabled; it was working last night…hmmm?
9:30-11:30 a.m – sending and receiving emails from my car at my “internet cafe” (a.k.a. a parking lot 2 km from my cottage where the rocket stick gets a signal); troubleshooting with Digitel via cell phone re: long distance issue (not solved);
Noon until 5ish- a combination of 2 more episodes of The Wire, watching Spain beat out Germany en route to the World Cup finals and helping the cottage owners assemble a new BBQ. Now the TV, bed and BBQ are all nicer than mine at home! Fortunately, the cottage owners were able to solve the long distance issue. At 7:30 p.m. my service is supposed to be restored. Then I can make all the BD calls I want;
5 p.m.- A much anticipated swim around the lake (even up here it’s super hot outside);
5:53 p.m. – blasting out this blog post in Word (as I am not connected to the net from here);
6:15 p.m. – leaving for the IGA to pick up groceries and use their internet cafe (i.e. their parking lot) to put this post online.
So once again my day didn’t unfold as planned. Certainly I”ll be better able to talk football with my weekend guests and I dare say I’ve gained insight into coaching a West Baltimore drug dealer or detective but I certainly didn’t add any $ to the bottom-line today. Well there is always tomorrow. And I already have a lot going for me: my long distance plan will be back in action and the next game isn’t until Saturday!
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I can relate to this entire post…this was me in June minus the car internet cafe—now that’s impressive.
You have given me an idea….I could invite other entrepreneurs to meet me in my “car internet cafe” and serve iced coffee from a thermos. We could all be too hot and swatting bugs together