Boy am I tired!

This week I made two videos of me.  I decided that I am not good at making videos and do not really want to look at myself.  It reminded me of when I was young and we would record our voices on a tape recorder and I always sounded so strange.  I could hardly tell it was me.  Now days everyone is taking pictures and videos and I am not sure I like it.  It is bad enough to know how I sound, now I have to see how I look.  I look tired.  Being an entrepreneur is hard work.  I have been checking prices on cleaning materials and have had a hard time finding companies that care about the environment and do a good job.  I will be off to Don Aslett's this week to see what he has to offer.  I also need to find a cheap vacuum.  Will have to work on that.  It is to bad that the D.I. doesn't take many things like that anymore. 

I have been catching up on The E Myth.  I hadn't seen it for a couple of weeks on the reading page and when I saw it this week I realized I was behind.  Sitting waiting for your husband to have a root canal is a good opportunity to catch up on reading.  I like reading this book and find the way it is written interesting and insightful.  I realize that at home and at work you need to visualize what you want and then proceed to make it happen.  If it was never visualized first you will not be able to make it work.  I know that I do that when I am making a decision in my home.  This week we moved more of my things out of the office and painted the room so that Nathan can move into the basement.  I visualized where the furniture would go and how to get his mountain of stuff into the room.  We did make some progress, now I need to visualize where my stuff will go.  I told my husband to rent me a warehouse.  I liked the story of Tom Watson Sr. who started IBM.  He talked about how he had a clear picture of what he wanted the company to look like and he worked each day to make the picture happen. 

I realize it is time to change the vision of the company that we own and find new ways to make money.  We talked about sitting down and thinking about all the services that we offer and then finding ways to show those services to our clients so that we can generate more business.  Maybe next week I will learn how to find more clients and love them.  We need to expand and pinpoint our target market and think of ways that we can find more clients.  I told my husband that maybe we could offer some survey services to a client we have.  That way he could do better and in return we would do better.  I agree that it is about the customer and we need to expand our services to better meet customer needs. 

It is getting late.  I am tired.  There is much information roaming around my brain and it needs to rest and ponder again tomorrow.  I would like to say that I am burning the midnight oil, but my kids friends are just barely going home and all the lights are still on.  Is it any wonder why I am tired.  Teenagers are for the young at heart and mind.