Learning Better Business Practices
I am learning things about myself.
All the areas I fall short and learning why and what causes those shortfalls.
Over the last month or more I have failed with communicating and with trying to do something too fast or without the knowledge I needed to proceed ahead. This has lead me back into my imposter syndrome feeling. But the truth is….you are an imposter if you fail to do something the right way.
So I have to give myself a reality check here and ask myself some hard questions if I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing. What have I learned through my mistakes?
For a communication major, I fail at communicating sometimes. Here’s the scenario that often plays out.
I’m asked if I can do something. Being the people pleaser I am, I say yes, sure I can do it without fully looking into the details to see if it’s completely possible and then I don’t communicate well during the process until I find out this really can’t be done that way and then I have to deliver the disappointing news.
Being a People Pleaser. The first part where I failed is not saying from the beginning, “well I’m not sure if I can do that. Let me do some investigating and I’ll let you know.” This alone could solve many of my issues by simply not promising something I can’t deliver on until I know for sure!
Being too cheap: Because I want to have affordable prices, I have to work harder and do more projects for people. But all that does is make me have to do more work for less pay, stretching myself too thin which often sacrifices quality for quantity. What I’ve learned here is this is how I get burned out. Trying to do more for less is another form of people pleasing but its sacrificing price and quality. People do want to pay more for better quality and that truly is the lesson for having a slower life where I’m not running around in a million different directions trying to put out all the fires. Also because I keep having to hurry to other clients, I have to put a time limit on projects…hurrying always leads to dropped balls or failure in quality.
Not making time for education: There’s been many a situation where I’ve told myself I’ll know how to do it when I get there, or I can just figure it out as I go. Well I’ve failed doing that and there was no bandaid to really fix it. It meant I had to redo it all over again because I didn’t educate myself before I attempted to do what I needed to do. That is called being an amature and no one wants to pay a person good quality money when they are an amature.
Working on these three things in my life can help me feel less stressed where I produce better quality work and people are happier with me.
Quantity is rarely ever quality.