My ex-wife recently moved out and I’m in the process of re-arranging my much emptier home as a result. It’s actually quite a liberating experience and one of the things I’m working on is re-arranging my business space. And as I’m doing this I’m getting an opportunity to evaluate and re-arrange my business as well as the space in which it occurs in.
I’m an advocate of evaluating and re-arranging business. I actually check my business plan every three months to see what I’m doing well and what can be improved on. By doing that I’m able to focus my efforts and get some results that improve my business. And what I’ve noticed with my business and other peoples’ business is that there is always a need for improvement and for re-arrangement of priorities.
It’s easy to get away from looking at what you need to improve in your business. you get caught up in the daily grind, get focused on customers and then at some point feel dissatisfied with your business and wonder how it came to be that way. But that’s why its important to mark on your calender, every three months, a day that you will spend focusing on analyzing all of your business activities and looking at where you are strong as well as what needs work.
To me such a day is a time for reflection as well as analyzing my business. I reflect on what I’ve learned in the past quarter, and also reflect on what makes my business something I want to continue to do. I know I need to spend time thinking about those things as well as analyzing my business. analyzing tells me what I need to work, but reflection tells me why I’m still doing this business as opposed to something else.
What about you? Do you make time to re-arrange, analyze, and reflect on your business? What do you learn?
