The Importance of Flexibility With Yourself

I learned a bit of a les­son recently that I wanted to share with you. I’m sure you have heard that plan­ning is essen­tial to a smooth run­ning busi­ness. That’s very true. But it’s also impor­tance for your plan­ning and your goals to be flexible.

The world of mar­ket­ing changes at a very fast pace (espe­cially online) and you have to have a flex­i­ble busi­ness plan to keep up with things. So it’s impor­tant to have a busi­ness plan and that it’s flex­i­ble. But as I recently found out that I, as in myself, have to be flex­i­ble as well.

When I started this blog I told myself that I was going to post at least 3 times a week, every week. I didn’t want to miss a post either. And when I started the OMV newslet­ter I had to have it done every Sun­day no mat­ter what. I was firm with myself that I had to have it this way. This was my blog­ging plan. No ifs, ands, or buts.

I was not flex­i­ble at all. And when I missed a post I beat myself up over it. I got down on myself and gave myself 50 lashes of the whip. Well, maybe not the lashes but I may as well have.

This of course affected my other efforts and just kind of brought every­thing crum­bling down. I basi­cally sab­o­taged myself. It wasn’t until recently I dis­cov­ered that even if my busi­ness plan (blog plan in this case) is flex­i­ble I wasn’t.

I real­ize every­one makes mis­takes and no one by any means is per­fect. Myself included. So I just had to let it go instead of hold­ing a grudge against myself. I had to face it that with run­ning a writ­ing busi­ness I’m not always going to make the post when I want to. I just might miss a few things here in there.

And that is okay.

It’s impor­tant to be flex­i­ble. Both you and your plans need to be able to adjust to changes that will def­i­nitely come your way. It’s going to hap­pen at some point or another, things just don’t stay the same. All you can do is check your pri­or­i­ties and stick to that.

I want to build a good, solid writ­ing busi­ness. That takes a lot of work and ded­i­ca­tion. If that means I may miss a few posts or miss a newslet­ter update, so be it. It doesn’t mean I’m giv­ing up on my blog, it just means I need to make the most with what time I have.

The blog is still impor­tant but so are other things and adjust­ments have to made. And that includes learn­ing how to be more flexible.

~Chris

Have you been in this sce­nario? Have you been too hard on your­self before?

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