“in” the business

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever been given as an entrepreneur is the following…

“learn the difference between working in your business and working on your business.”

One lousy preposition makes a really big difference, doesn’t it?

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again…there is so much to do when you’re a one person show. Everything from trash pickup to bill paying to stocking office supplies to meeting clients and, oh yeah, whatever your business is actually in the business of doing.

It happens so quickly — you fall into the cycle of trying to just keep up with your business and not working on the business as a whole anymore. Those big picture conversations — so common at the beginning when you have plenty of time for these things — about where you’re going and how you’re getting there fall to the wayside in the face of endless to-do lists and waiting clients/customers.

I am by no means immune and am constantly trying to remind myself that the hamster on the wheel gets nowhere, but that doesn’t make it any easier to occasionally look into the future and beyond what needs to be done today.

I did manage to get inspired and find a little time for a mini-reno here on the blog though.

Ever since the blog-tastrophe in March of this year, I haven’t had the time or inspiration to improve the design and functionality on the blog to be more what I had envisioned. Randomly, inspiration struck and getting up at 5AM provided the spare hour necessary to implement it…et voila! (Psst…if you’re in a reader, pop over to the actual site to see it).

Which also reminds me, ever since the aforementioned disaster, I think the feed has been a little off. If you wouldn’t mind double checking your reader subscription, I would very much appreciate it :-)

So what do you think? Like the changes? Don’t like the changes? Do you struggle with the difference between working in and on your business?