To follow up on yesterday’s post about having one weekend to forget work… welp, it didn’t happen this weekend. A problem reared its ugly head a little after 8:00 PM last night (yup, 8:00 PM on a Friday) — it was a scheduling issue and I didn’t see the ‘screw up’ email until I was ready to go to bed around 2:00 AM this morning. I watched the sun come up as I was researching, and went to bed around 7:30 AM this morning. The phone rang around 11:00 AM with more on the resolution. The conflict totally revolves around another person simply not paying attention.
As I reflect on things that have happened business-wise in the past couple weeks that have me feeling burnt, I realize that every single issue stems from someone simply not paying attention! Are we all so busy that we just rush through our tasks day after day? Just throw some shit out there and let someone else try to figure it out?
You can’t get back time you’ve already spent — if that were possible, I’d love to get back a few of the hours sleep I missed last night. Maybe the way to spend more time doing what it is you want to do — is to just throw crap to everyone else, hope they are in your head and know what you want and when you want it, and sprinkle some minimal damage control BS around when it doesn’t work and say, “oops!”