I am up at Mt. Lyford for a week working – or so it was planned on the Horse treks business with Kate. I am the finance manager. Of course I have a swag of other commitments I have made. Mostly to do with my work in the area of supervision with NZAP and the CITP.
Busy, busy, busy.
But we have made a great plan! I will extract data from the MoneyWorks file to make a Grid (see footnote 1) to work out our marketing strategy. OK, upgrade MoneyWorks, talk on phone. Learn how to extract data. But first the February and March reports, then the Annual report, then the April report! And not just reports, but do the data entry work first!
Busy, busy, busy.
Focus, says Kate, but she does not know how unbelievably focussed I am! Yes but that is not your job, you should DELEGATE that! Who the hell to? So I sent her a verbal Memo: Finance department under stress. Need more staff. Urgent. EeeeeeK.
Busy, busy, busy.
IT department in demand. (That is me too.) Website assistance please. Kate has done a great job learning to tweak the websites. Mt. Lyford & Otahuna, but there are complexities, FTP passwords won’t work etc.
Busy, busy, busy.
Marketing – needs a video. Kate made a wonderful video… well took the raw data. To get it on YouTube took ages, extracting the WAV files from the AVI and then editing them back in. DONE! I am really pleased! Look at that video!.
Busy, busy, busy.
Now, crocodiles killed. I am focusing on The Discipline of the Financial Leader. Chapter in E-Myth Mastery. Our bible. Wonderfully inspiring.
Love this line page 191:
“first you have to make sure you are delegating accountability rather than abdicating accountability”
Busy, busy, busy.
So am I in Focus to be writing here?
I think so. There is a theme in this blog & in my mind. It includes the psychological aspects of life & work. I see a connection with GTD and its operationalisation of delegation with the waiting for list and the weekly review.
I also see a connection with dialogue. Delegation can be an order: You do it. That is fine if there is an agreed process. Processes like that require structure. Before struture comes dialogue if we are to eschew “I – It” relationships.
Busy as I am it is useful to get this out of my head!
Footnotes
Product-Market Grid (23)
A tool used to define your markets by listing your company’s products along one axis and the types of customers (markets) you serve along the other axis. Each cell within the grid is called a “product-market set.” The information gathered will help you analyze the potential of each market to contribute to your goals.
Busy, busy, busy! I am so glad that I have left all that behind and have adopted the retired life where I am now only busy, busy. Your energy levels amaze me. Now, hire someone so that you can begin delegating the time-eaters, the stuff that can be handled with minimal skills.