ANDREA ROZMAN
  • Home
  • About Me
  • The Awful Truth
  • Do Something For Yourself
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Good Things to Spend Money On

Welcome to my Brain Dump...uh, I mean my Blog

It is Personal, and Business

5/8/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
OK, I’m going to let you in on a secret. I have watched You've Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan lots of times. I’m not going to say how many times, because I actually don’t know. But it is a lot! And everyone knows the exchange between their characters (okay, Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly... yes, I know the names) about business:

Joe Fox: It wasn't... personal.
Kathleen Kelly: What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me. It's personal to a lot of people. And what's so wrong with being personal, anyway?


I’m going to tell you that yes, most of the time it is business. But sometimes things hit home a little too closely. Sometimes you do take things personally. And it hurts.
Recently something happened in my business world, and it hurt me personally.  A lot, actually, if I'm being perfectly honest. I work very hard for my clients. Sometimes at the expense of my own personal time and well-being. And, well, I felt that all that hard work was completely unappreciated.  Worthless.

That. Hurt.  It was personal, very personal to me.  It didn't matter that it wasn't my business.  Even when it's a client's business, and in the big scheme of things has nothing to do with me... it's personal.  The work that I do is personal because it represents who I am.  What I mean is, I do damn great work, and that's who I am.  I work hard and I'm going to work my ass off and fight for your business like I would fight for my own.

But when you don't see how much I care for your business...

It got to me in a bad way.  Maybe it shouldn't have.  Maybe I was just having a bad day and I should have just shucked it off to "it's business."  Maybe I shouldn't care as much because others don't care as much.  I don't know.

​But you're going to come across these times in your own business.  It's going to suck.  It's going to hurt.  And it's going to be very, very personal.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    My inner voice speaks about business, work, virtual assistants, and occasional nonsense.

    Categories

    All
    Bad Sales
    Emotions
    Motivation
    Problem Customers
    Work Ethic

    Archives

    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022

    RSS Feed

(c) 2022 Andrea Rozman
  • Home
  • About Me
  • The Awful Truth
  • Do Something For Yourself
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Good Things to Spend Money On