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The five-month wait that vanished in one phone call
Bit of a left field share for the community today. Stay with me, this lands.
Got a call Tuesday afternoon from my partner Selina's neurologist. Cancellation. Could we come in 9:45 Wednesday morning instead of waiting?
Context: we booked the appointment in January. The first available slot was mid June.
So when "9:45 tomorrow" hit my phone, my answer was "yeah yeah yeah, we'll take it." Hung up. Cool, calm, collected. Right. What do we reshuffle?
Wednesday morning cleared. Walked into that appointment 16 hours later instead of waiting another month. No drama. No panic.
Here's why I'm sharing this with you lot.
The skill of pivoting at a moment's notice. The cool, calm, collected response when life throws a curveball. The "yes first, figure it out second" muscle.
I didn't build that as a carer. I built it running my businesses. Multiple income streams, school holidays, family in the mix, things break, plans change, days fall apart. If you panic every time something goes sideways, you burn out fast. So you build the muscle.
Same skill that runs the business runs the household.
The work you're doing here, the skills you're building as an entrepreneur, they don't stay in your business. They come with you everywhere. Carer life. Family crises. Random Tuesday afternoons. Wherever life calls on you to pivot.
The longer you do this, the more you realise the entrepreneur skillset is a life skillset. Same wiring.
Anyone else got a story of business skills paying off in an unexpected corner of your life? Drop it in the comments, would be keen to hear your stories
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The five-month wait that vanished in one phone call
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