While on this journey of entrepreneurship, I am learning and so many ways.  Some lessons I have acquired because others have shared their wisdom with me  my grandmother would call that a “taught lesson”.  Others have been the hard way my grand mother would refer to this one as a “bought lesson”. 

In my mid thirties one of the most valuable lessons I am learning in 2016 is  “if you say yes to one thing you are automatically saying no to something else.”

The hardest part of the lesson learned: I am currently learning is how to juggle the different roles I am accountable for, and not beat myself up when I am not exceling in every area of my life simultaneously. If I am knocking the ball out of the park and networking for connect2nicu, that I am not taking care of my home like I should. If I am exceling at work, I have missed a deadline I set for newsletter for connect2nicu. If I am being a great friend, there is some other area of my life that I am not giving adequate attention to.

If I am saying no to something, if I can make the no intentional, I can “staff” that weakness.   How much time can I truly allocate to one area, without taking too much time from another area of my life?   How do I schedule that time, and plan out that time and organize my life so I can be successful and significant? According to Benjamin Franklin “For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”

 

The month of January I have read “The year of Yes” by Shonda Rhimes and I attribute the wisdom I am learning for this life lesson to her and a good friend