I have never done anything like this before. I usually have written a journal note here or there about every year or so. I have noted some events in letters written to my son a mission but have not been very consistent.
Lessons Learned
- Having a business with employee’s requires a lot of time and more effort than doing things yourself.
- This has taught me much. One of my employee’s recently took a whole month off. He was not just an employee though he was the foreman for the project. I had turned most of the day to day over to him and he has done a great job taking care of this customer. He needed the time off to prepare for his daughter’s wedding and this meant I needed to do and be who he had been for the customer. This required many pain staking hours that I was not accustomed to.
- Relying on those whom you can trust.
- To continue on with the previous thought. I realized to complete the project on time that my employee had left me with I needed to get some help. I called current employee’s to work Saturday’s and they could not. I then reached out to former employee’s who did help in the end but could not at a critical time. I resorted to my brother who is a nurse for help. He did have some basic understanding of how to do things but was none-the-less what I needed. This pushed me out of my comfort zone to ask for help.
Lessons Not Yet Learned
- How to balance all things
- I want to be a great father, husband, employee, and business owner. I find that I tend to favor one or another at different times. I want to do everything but fall way short.
JJ Claymore Inc. 