The Most Important Person In Your Business
I will never forget the day that my mentor asked me, “Who is the most important person in your business?”
I felt totally and completely stumped. So I ran through all of my vendors, clients, and team members in my mind to come up with an answer to what was clearly a trick question.
Was it my marketing person? They bring in leads and without leads we don’t have sales and without sales we don’t have a business.
What is my sales person? They sell to the leads who come in and without sales we are out of business.
Was is my customer service and customer service team members? They kept our clients and customers happy. Happy customers, mean more sales which means we stay in business.
My mentor looked at me with compassion in his eyes, as he said to me, “ Sara all those roles in your business are super important but, but woman, the most important person in your business is you. Without you, there would be no business.”
I was going to my mentor at that time, because I was stressed, anxious and really wasn’t my normal, fun, and enthusiastic self. It was like a cloud had descended over me, and all I wanted to do was take my ball and go home. So I went to my mentor to ask for help.
He proceeded to ask me a few more questions about how I had been taking care of myself… not good.
In life and business in general, I really don’t even like to think about my myself. I don’t see myself as important, sure I am valuable, but I am no better than any other person. If anything I think I struggle to even at times see myself as “THE BOSS.” Which is funny because this blog is called the Momma Boss- it’s a reminder almost to myself that I am the boss of my business and my life.
When you are a leader and business owner,
“You are seen under a microscope and hear through a megaphone.” -Alex Charfen
That concept for me has until recent years been tremendously hard to grasp, because how I see myself is a mom of 5 from Wyoming, a team player, referee, and friend. Not a leader or boss. The people who work for me, see me as the boss, and at times that has made me super uncomfortable. So when asked who the most important person in my business was, and the answer being me. I struggled with grasping that.
This mentor went on to tell me, the because I am the most important person in my business, I have to take care of myself life it’s part of my job.
Eat Right and in moderation
Hydrate- drink your water, all the water. You need it!
Move- get your heart pumping and your muscles moving.
Get enough sleep- for real though. You need sleep, not getting enough actually makes your brain deteriorate, and you end up making poor decisions when you aren’t rested. YOU the decision maker can’t afford to make poor decisions.
Get your mind right- get a counsellor, journal, meditate, do what you have to do to make sure the space between your ears is good.
… And for the love of all that is good…
Take a day off every so often!
You are a total badass! Starting a business, growing a business, and running a business are not easy, but you my friend don’t seek the easy life, but it can be easier when you simply take better care of yourself.
Your team doesn’t want to be walking on egg shells, because they are worried you may blow a gasket.
Take care of yourself, because if you aren’t good, the business will be operating at half power. You are the engine powering this amazing machine you have built from nothing.
Your team needs you.
Your clients need you.
Your family needs you.
Take care of you. If you aren’t good, nothing is good.