The next reactions vary from thinking I need to somehow catch up on all the things I meant to do and didn't to just putting them on next year's list. Yeah, I tend to be a women of extremes when it comes to things like that.
As I talk to my friends, I hear a variety of comments and thoughts...
- One friend is working and reworking her business plan for 2011. In the middle of that, she is thinking about a new non-profit idea and her teenage son getting his first new truck.
- Another is going back to the daily lists she created to build her business over the last several months (and didn't implement consistently) as a way to get on track for December - 2011 is on the horizon but is more of an extension, not a new start. All of this in the middle of a 2-week trip to South America followed by another one before YE.
- The corporate controller is focused on YE planning (before 12/31), YE audit (after 12/31) and how to squeeze in family time in the midst.
- She is closely followed by the marketing director who is thankful that all the holiday promotions are running instead of just being planned...and is now holding her breath that they work. But with the hardest part done, she has time now to enjoy her family, friends and all the holidays have to offer.
Wow...all of these busy women, some executives and some business owners, are leading full lives. Yet, they face the challenges every day and week of seeming to have to choose between the different areas of their lives. Isn't that a something we all struggle with from time to time - if not each day?
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