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IT’S NOT JUST BUSINESS, IT’S PERSONAL

August 25, 2009 on 2:03 am | In life coaching | No Comments

As CEO of your life, you have clients.  In a business, clients are the source of cash revenue.  Your life’s clients also provide revenue — emotional revenue.  All clients require time and energy.  Because a business relationship between employee and boss has an obvious cash value, most people remember to mind this client.  However, we also need to mind our personal clients — our significant other, family, friends, and ourselves. 

Do you move around social engagements because of your job?  Is every meeting really more important than lunch with a friend, or is it just easier to move your friend?

Do you cancel family obligations more readily than work ones?  Do you push back on scheduling a vacation because you’re needed at the office, but don’t push back on a project to keep a promise to your kids?

Do you keep appointments with yourself to eat a proper breakfast, exercise, feed your passion?

“I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives – when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail boxes are empty – the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.” — Oprah Winfrey

In business, if you don’t care for your clients, they go elsewhere.  Relationships need tending.  Although personal revenues may not be the quantifiable kind, they often prove more valuable.  Would you be more upset about losing a job or a loved one?  It’s not just business.  It’s personal.  Mind your personal clients too.