Are You Solving Other People's Problems Instead of Your Own?

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28 Jul 2007 07:37 PM

The idea for this blog came to me during a recent conversation with a colleague, he actually posed this question to me--asking if I was not spending too much time trying to offer advice and be available to all sorts of other people--friends, family, etc.--that I wasn't taking the time tend to my own problems and business issues. Well, isn't this always the case, though? It is so much easier to see what other people should be doing to fix their problems--than it is to see what we should do to fix and attend to our own!

This can be one of the problems that comes from spending too much time in networking and professional development groups--we can distract ourselves with being "helpful" to other people's businesses--because it is easier and we are less emotionally invested--and neglect to look after our own businesses. Others wonder why our businesses are floundering when we seem to know so much and be so helpful with their business problems! Well, the fact is, we're not attending to our issues and problems with the same devotion we are offering to others and our businesses may be suffering for it.

I know this doesn't affect all of us. But, I assume that if I am one home business owner who can easily distract myself with other people's problems, I certainly must not be alone. I think that I occasionally need to be reminded to get my eyes back on my own paper and attend to my own pastures for a while--taking a break from nosing into everyone else's businesses. Of course, it is up to me to set the boundaries and make myself less available for offering up advice. What is helpful to someone else might very well be a distraction for me and my business!

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