Doing the Dishes is Like Starting Your Business…Again

Starting your business over again reminds me of one of least favorite chores—doing the dishes (which in my mind also includes cleaning the kitchen).

 Why?

There always seem to be dishes to do. I can get all the dirty dishes in the dishwasher, clean off the kitchen counters, and clean the stove. Everything looks nice and pretty—showroom ready!

Then a minute after I’m done, someone comes into the kitchen (usually my daughter or husband), gets a drink or a snack…and leaves crumbs, some sort of liquid, or sticky stuff on the counter.

Can’t I just enjoy a clean kitchen for more than 30 minutes!?

I bring up this up is because doing the dishes is one of the chores we want our kids to do during the summer since they’re out of school. But I told my husband that I’d rather they just take the clean dishes out of the dishwasher instead of loading the dishwasher.

You see, no one in my family strategizes how to load the dishwasher to get the most dishes in. They just put the dishes in and if there’s no more room, they leave the rest in the sink. But then I come along, and…wa la! I fit most, if not all, the dishes in the washer.

But it occurred to me that sometimes I don’t do a good job. I don’t scrub dishes that should be scrubbed or I put too many dishes in the dishwasher. So some dishes don’t get clean, and I have to do them…again.

Starting Your Business…Again

Have you ever done that with your business? I have. When I first started out, I really didn’t know what I was doing. For example, I had a list, but a little itty bitty one. Here’s how bad it was.

I checked on my list one day and found I had a total of 42. Twenty-two people who had opted in…and 20 who had opted out. The 2 remaining were me and a good friend of mine…so much for my list.

So I started over again.

And you know what? I learned that it’s okay to start your business over again. This time I was better prepared. I knew more because I had been studying, learning, and developing new skills. And those were things I wouldn’t have known if I had not started in the first place.

So don’t feel bad if your business doesn’t start off well. Just figure out what you should do differently and start over.

Do you have any chores you hate but they’ve taught you a valuable lesson? If so, let me know in the comments below. I’d love to hear from you.

Yoli

Better Networker:  http://www.betternetworker.com/members/allenyoli
Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/allenyoli
Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/allenyoli
Blog: http://OnlineBusinessPlankOwner.com
Email: OnlineBusinessPlankOwner@gmail.com