I have shown in my own life over and over that if I just spend a little time getting organized I will actually be far more productive in all the things that I do. And at the end of the day I feel better and so begins the momentum that continues into the next day or at least the evening and I’m able to accomplish even more during those periods of time.

For instance today I set out to accomplish a certain task and was interrupted early in the morning and felt frustrated while I was doing something else because my original task was being put to the side. But what I did at that point was decided that no matter what I would finish my original task. I put my mind to it and low and behold by the end of the day I had completed so much more than I ever thought possible. I accomplished the intended task along with all the distracting tasks.

This is not to say that every time you could be taken away from your intended task and still get it done but it just shows you the power of intention and the way that if you make up your mind you can actually get quite a lot done. I heard it said that if you want to get something done give it to a busy person and that adage I think holds a lot of truth for many people. We just need to get busy.

Someone said a long time ago that half the battle of getting anything done is just getting started and that may hold true in this case also just start. Once your started it is much easier to accomplish your goal. In fact it is impossible to accomplish your goal if you don’t get started. Now there’s a profound statement for you if I ever heard one.

If I had to do it over I probably would do things differently. At least I would try to “CMA” little more so that there wouldn’t be so much opportunity for my demise. It’s not that I was doing anything wrong it’s just that I took my position and allow there to be some great areas. Once that could be construed the wrong way but if you knew me you knew there was nothing wrong. I treated it like my own business and maybe that was a mistake in hindsight.

I did learn a lot this unfortunate set of circumstances. I hope it didn’t really make me jaded but I cannot think it did. I don’t think I could ever trust an employer again, at least not to the degree that I did before. I really allowed myself to be committed to that job and in hindsight that was probably a mistake. It seems that in business they are very few places where you can let your guard down. And that’s one of the things that I regret having learned from this experience.

You see I’m a trusting person by nature. And I tended to believe the best of people so I always felt like that in the end no matter what really happened if my intentions were right in my integrity was there I would always be given the benefit of the doubt. Now I know better.

For most people in business as owners, there is always the underlying current that what is good for the business is right. It’s not true those of us that have owned businesses know it’s easy to believe. I’m building a business from home now although I still have my 9 to 5. Someday, I’ll be free. Maybe just free to make my own decisions, but free nonetheless. Free of the fear of being laid off, free of the fear of the way that I felt almost 2 years ago.