Most of you know that a major change is happening in my life, I am leaving home and moving home. I am leaving one home-New Port Richey and am moving to my home state to the town of Athens, GA. This transition has brought back many laughs, stories, and people back into my life in a short period of time. From the moment I found out Alex was relocating, I had six weeks.
"Everything rises and falls on leadership." John Maxwell.
The moment Alex told me he was leaving, things changed. We blinked and he said-let's hold off on events. Most of our success has come outside of our restaurant and to hold off on events means for me to change roles in the restaurants. What I have been working on for the past 18 months needed to cease immediately. That's like telling water not to be wet. Good luck with that.
Since we had that conversation I had to change my behavior professionally. Prior to his announcement my role had been boiled down to three specific things: focus, develop people, grow sales. "Holding off" on events was not what I wanted to hear, but it's something we had to do. We had to slow down. We had to shift our focus. We prepared to shift gears.
We had schools to contact, we had to reach out to the city of NPR and their staff. We had coupons and flyers with specific promotions in place for individuals. All of that had an end date. One of the most challenging and difficult experiences I endured was to tell a business partner that our relationship is ending.
That's not fun.
I didn't/don't like telling people no. I have been trained to tell everyone yes. Yes we can make that happen. Yes we can do that event. Yes you can have the cow at your party.
And then we had to say no. We had to stop participating. We had to sit this one out.
In six weeks, our culture has drastically shifted. We have gone from a growth mindset to a "be ready for anything, change is coming" mindset. We have had one purpose with clear goals and incentives to drive us to be the best. And they are no longer a priority.
My mentor Jim Rohn wrote a fantastic book on the subject that applies to changes in ones life. The Seasons of Life is a phenomenal read.
The strange thing that kept popping up in my face was "know which season you are in". For the past six weeks I have tried to pull back, I have tried to tone down the activity level at work. It didn't work. We still did events after our cut off date. I'm still bringing in a group of people for milkshakes on my last day of work.
Change is tough. Change is really tough.
I feel like I am getting close to the matter but I am not hitting the bullseye.
Know where you are what season you are in. If you don't, you will have a mell of a hess pushing on something that needs to be pulled.
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