Can You Handle Surprises Out Of Left Field?

Do you remember hearing Col. Jessep shouting ” You can’t handle the truth!”?  It’s the Jack Nicholson character in the move A Few Good Men.

Can you handle business surprises that come out of left field? Can you handle the truth?

I’m not talking about “slowing economic conditions” or “the old computer you keep babying until it finally gives you the blue screen of death”.

Today – I’m talking about situations that come out of nowhere and set you back on your heals?  Something so big that you must tell yourself to breath.

What would you do if you were “instantly” put into a situation where you had to totally (I mean Totally) restructure your business?  And… this was not a planned situation… or even an asked for situation.

One minute you are humming along – working on building you business with a plan in place.

Wham!!!

In less than a minute – you are faced with “changing the entire focus and structure of your business”.

Let me ask you this? Have you ever heard the phrase “resistant to change”?

I learned this in business school.  Most people are resistant to change in varying degrees. If you think about it – you are resistant to change.

Example: Just this last week on of our local Walmart stores redesigned the entire grocery section.  I know by looking at the redesign as a whole – that’s it will make shopping easier.  But… it’s so frustrating to find “anything”.  I’ve heard from many of my friends that they are frustrated and annoyed with the change.

You can probably think of several examples of change that have affected you recently.

• Your local grocery store changes brands on one of your favorite food/snacks.
• You decide to move the furniture around in your living room or the paint color in your kitchen… and you spouse and/or kids throw a fit.
• Something in your life that normally happens on a schedule – is suddenly changed.

I’ve learned to be accepting of change that really doesn’t “matter” – IF – it’s not going to make a huge change in my quality of life… I should let it roll.

But… What if the change (surprise) makes a huge change to your business model?

It won’t change the quality of your life… if you don’t let it.  You can handle it – You can “Handle The Truth”.

I’m just positive that you have no clue “why” I’m bringing up this subject.  (I’ve been known to read minds)

Left Field Fly Ball Came My Way

Two days ago – I was handed (figuratively) the Truth. It wasn’t a “Monday headache” and the accountant/lawyer didn’t send me bad news either.

I don’t have some huge unexpected bill to cover and my husbands business is still humming along just fine.

I can’t really share with you exactly what the “Surprise” was…  I can tell you what is changing in my business:

• I’m taking on a boat load more work and responsibility.
• I’ll be incurring more expenses – but I should also reap the reward of  more income.
• I’ll have more control over all aspects of my business and more opportunity to “mess up”.
• I’ll have more things to keep track of. (my assistant will be so thrilled – NOT).
• I’ll have more things to forget (I’m old and forgetful) 

I’ve pulled my “Big Girl Panties On” (trying not to freak out) and I’m also digging into the process of adding several more plates to keep spinning.

What does my Surprise mean for you?

It means change is “a coming”.  You will start to see “gradual” changes.. in fact you might not notice much changing at all.  One day you might think… “when did that happen”?  Because I know that change is hard to accept if it’s thrown at you all at once… I want to gradually ease you into the changes.

Are you with me so far?  Confused?  Don’t be.  We will just play this change out together and all will be revealed eventually.

One of the BIG Changes I can tell you about –

I will be selling off a bucket load of my micro-niche sites.

In all honesty – I just can’t have a many plates spinning right now. I’d loose what few brain cells I have.

Some of them make a consistent little bit of cash – and some aren’t making much at all.  Most of them need love and attention to get them ranked higher in the search engines so they will get enough traffic to have a decent affiliate sales conversion.

I won’t sell them off all at once. It will be a gradual “thing”.  I rarely sell websites… I try to keep all my little babies working for me.  I mean – seriously – this is (was) my business model… until a few days ago.

It will be like sending my kids off to kindergarten – I will feel like an “empty nester” all over again.

Anyway… more about these sites in the next update.

p.s. I’m thinking about stating to do more video updates.  I’ve been lax about the whole video thing because I feel like I have to “dress” before I go on camera. I do love working from my little next and not having to be “presentable”.  I think my hubby would like it if I’d “clean up” more often…

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