26A Celebrating Failure

A time this semester that I failed was in implementing my service schedule in my business. Every year I tell myself that I want to see my clients more often face to face. So, every 6 months or so I go through my client base and I organize a new more ambitious service schedule of how often I am going to see each client. I try to implement the schedule and find it is just too many meetings in too little time. I end up not being able to get all the work done that I need to do each week.  

I’ve come to the understanding that I like to bite off more than I can chew. I set goals that are challenging knowing that they will be hard to meet. Eventually I believe I will make the perfect running service schedule just maybe not this year. Emotionally and behaviorally it doesn’t bother me too much. After years of the same behavior I recognize that I provide more value to my clients through my increase in effort and my business does well because of it.  

This class has reinforced a lot of things that I have learned in business and one of the most important ones is that without risk or uncertainty, the reward is nowhere near as sweet. I was able to grow my current business after I sold my house and invested the cash and took out a loan to expand my practice. Small failures are important to reach a larger level of success and this class reinforces that.