The nature of my business being one where I form long-term, in-depth relationships with my clients, my practice is almost full with four.  Each client definitely has similarities in how they are – bright, creative, hardworking and driven people of integrity.  They are usually organizationally challenged – either by temperament, or sometimes by practical ability. They know what they want but don’t always know the best way to make it over and under, or around and through all the obstacles on the path.

They are each in business in quite different fields and while some basic things are the same in my work for each of them, more often than not I wear a completely different hat with each. Today I put on a sub-hat within my main hat for a client and spent a good amount of time trouble-shooting his computer (not the first time I might add).  He is not a techie type at all, but today he wanted to learn and so together the two of us systematically worked through it, helped by the user manual, and lo and behold, we were able to fix the darn thing.  Hi frikkin’ five!  Success is indeed sweet.

To be successful in my business, among other things therefore, is to know a little about a lot of things.  Over the years the ‘little’ has grown some.  A little win like today always feels great and I wear the victor’s laurel with pride.

Photo by Kevin Rosseel

Hope you are all winners of your daily battles too.

P.S. I am participating in the Ultimate Blog Challenge this month – a blog a day if I can.