Jun 8
Do You Have a Refill Filter?
I have a friend who moved from Chicago to Phoenix. One too many bitter winters sent him to the land of the sun. I visited him in Phoenix just after his move and we soaked in his pool as the outside temperature soared to 115 degrees.
I thought he had made an interesting trade.
My friend explained to me that his pool is equipped with a filter that adds water to it every day. In the Phoenix sun water evaporates from a pool that size at a rate of 10 gallons every 24 hours. In very short order, without a refill filter in the blistering desert heat, the pool would be empty and dry.
The heat of leading a small business does the same thing to us. Employee problems, marketing challenges, production breakdowns, pressing bills. If we do not have a refill filter in place that replaces the loss of water in our soul, we too will end up empty and dry.
What are you doing this week—not when you retire or sell the business—to ensure you are staying refreshed? Here are four areas of life not related to business that need regular refill filters: physical, mental, spiritual and emotional.
Part of why you started your own business was to enjoy a different kind of life.
Are you?
