I hadn’t thought about it…but yes my comments were mostly about working on your business, as you pointed out. Although I can also think of instances where some of us are overachievers and do more for our clients than is really necessary…and perhaps sometimes it’s good to toss those things, too
I’ve made my own New Year’s Resolution of sorts — whenever I get overwhelmed, I promise myself that I will go delete some emails, throw away some papers, cross off some tasks from my list that I think I should do, but if I’m really truthful to myself, I don’t have to do! I tried it today and it feels amazingly good…my brain is thanking me for the extra space to think!

Great blog - I really enjoy reading it.

In this post, at first read (I read it twice) I nearly fell off my chair when I read the bit about deleting e-mails. I thought, “OMG - That’ll send me into complete hysteria!”

On second read, I realized (please correct me if I have this wrong) that this is pertains to the work you do “on” your business and not “in” your business.

Surely one can’t delete e-mails or throw away to-do lists when it belongs to the tasks they have for their clients but I do see the benefit in throwing away those endless to-do lists as it pertains to working “on” my business. I would feel a lot less overwhelm and allow the good things just to ebb and flow out of my business rather than crash and burn into my business.

Thanks for posting this - it made me realize how hung up a business owner can get on the small details. This inspires me to post something similar on my blog.

Thanks Terri! (Sorry for the comment rant - I couldn’t help myself! This was great!)