Starting Over - Again

     For the past six weeks I have been unemployed. It was my own doing as I left my job before going on holidays at the start of July. The past three or four weeks I have been putting together everything needed to start your own business. It has been a very steep learning curve. I have managed other peoples businesses but until now have never had my own. As scary as it was to leave the safety of working for someone else, I am more glad than ever that I did make the leap.
     In the consulting that I am doing, or working on doing, we do something called gap analysis. This involves finding the gaps between the current state and the desired state. You can then develop a plan to get to the desired state by filling in those gaps. This week I started to do that to my own business. What do I require in order to get from where I am today to getting my first client? This has been a great experience and has started me learning about a lot of things that I never had to deal with in previous roles. Every morning when I get up, I look at the Plan and see what has yet to be complete and what the next steps should be. This allows me to make a list of things that I need to accomplish throughout the day. It feels goo to be able to cross a bunch of things off throughout the day as well. I have also been keeping notes in this sheet for every task that I enter. Keeping this journal also brings some sort of inner piece. It is like it seems to make the tasks more relevant.
     With having to learn so many new things, it has reminded me how much I enjoy it. Learning is one thing that there never seem to be enough time for with all of the day to day things that come with managing a business. I have always heard the term "sharpen the saw" and thought that I was doing a decent job with continuing my education. I now have a different outlook on this. There are so many things that can be learned that don't require a classroom. A half hour of reading about a subject you want to learn about or a conversation with someone who has been thorough what you are trying to do can be extremely educational.
     This has been the first good week that I have had in a long time. I both physically and mentally feel good. Being in a better mental frame of mind has allowed me to do some things this week that I have been putting off. Physical stuff is still hard as I still seem to have lots of tail bone issues but instead of using that to just not do anything, this week I found a way to start over. I started doing leg raises instead of sit ups as I still can't roll over my tail bone. These hurt way less.
     I still can't do correct stances and a side heal thrust is a definite no no but there are some things that I can do. These things I plan on putting on to my daily task list so that they become part of my daily routine, again.