The Diary of an Entrepreneur #4 Working From Home

Fire alarm testing on a Monday is so Monday -D.H.

Listen, I had it all planned. I had an entrepreneur’s dream workday planned. For me: that’s me, my desk, and no booked calls. When I have no client calls, no networking calls, no hosted community calls…no calls, I’m like a kid going to Disney World. The world becomes my oyster, my desk becomes THE place to be, and my work involves anything and everything I feel like doing. Now, don’t get me wrong I LOVE having calls. I love chatting with friends, clients, and colleagues, however because so much of my work involves calls, my work schedule tends to revolve around them.

If I only have an hour between 2 calls, I can only get specific things done. Now, give me a day with no calls at all and it’s like I have been offered a four course meal at a steakhouse! I’m ready to dig into the projects that take me hours, the creative work that fuels my mind, and of course getting to that admin list that keeps adding up.

On this Monday, on this start of the week all ready to head into the Disney World of my home office…it begins…

BEEP

No no please no

BEEP

It’s fire alarm testing day. The condo building had sent out flyers about this, I knew about this, AND I fully forgot about this.

BEEEEP

My pup Oliver is too stressed to eat his breakfast which means I can’t enjoy my morning coffee. I am a morning mess and I decide I have to take Oliver to daycare and then try to enjoy a breakfast, because working from home with this incessant beeping is going to drive me

BEEP

absolutely insane. Which I can tell you right now, I have already knocked on the doors of insanity this morning and it’s not looking pretty.

Today is going to be a tough one because not only has my Disney World been shattered, but I was banking on today to finish a major project of mine. The magazine that I am launching was meant to go to printer, with final edits and articles to be completed today. Guess what my first call of the day was

BEEP

I called the printing company I will be using to print and distribute the magazine and let the know the beeping ridiculousness that my Disney World Monday has become. Conveniently and thank goodness I have such a fabulous relationship with her, that she is accommodating the beeping with me.

Today is going to be a — throw in the towel and hope for the best — kind of day. The kind of day where mid sentence

BEEEEEEEEEEEEP

So much for Disney World.

Hannah Schwartz
Business Strategist, Community Builder, Magazine Owner
www.startwithhannah.com