A huge game changer for my business endeavor has been a business journal. Don’t let “boring” business get the best of you. Take notice! Write down what you learn. Do I understand this? As I try to explain it again, it is easy to see the gaps in my understanding. (I still struggle to write about consignment. I still struggle to spell consignment.) Write down your questions. What don’t I understand?
But not only describe what you learn, you also need to justify and articulate your business decisions to yourself. Why are you deciding to do this? Why this decision, and not the other? You will not only track the development of your company, but you will start seeing the gaps in your own business logic. Maybe you do want to print out 15,000 books right before January. But maybe you don’t want to print when your copyright will make them look a year old already. Mark those places up in angry “solve me” red. Or whatever color. Come back to those marks as actionables to organize and prioritize for the future.
As I am just starting out, you can bet my entire darn journal is a mess of red marks. Ooooh, the things I don’t know.
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