What's important?

Subscribe in your email box!

Subscribe in your feed reader!

I try to write about three times per week. Most of it is pretty good and will probably help you grow your business. If it doesn't, then I probably can't help you.

You can use a traditional RSS Feedreader with this fancy-dancy link. I think this approach is harder but if you want to do it the hard way, who am I to say otherwise?

You can use a traditional RSS Feedreader with this fancy-dancy link. I think this approach is harder but if you want to do it the hard way, who am I to say otherwise?

posted this on Thursday, June 23, 2011 at about 10am.
Honey Bucket

Sometimes we worry about things that we shouldn't worry about it and we ignore the important things. Commonly this is known as picking your battles.

The challenge, I think, sometimes is that, for as often as you hear "pick your battles," no one really ever says what that really means.

If we had the ability to think logically, from every point of view all the time, it would be very easy to know what battles to pick... which challenges are worth addressing.

I can only speak for myself, but I know that if I am caught off guard with a request that doesn't fit my plan, I have a very difficult time bending. I think that many type A people tend to have the same type of problem and many entreprenuers and business leaders tend to be type A. 

I know that when my employees, children, friends or wife ask me to do something that is outside my current plan, I have to take a step back and process it before I can say yes. It can strike them as strange at times because normally I make decisions so quickly.

I find that I have to constantly remind myself that sometimes it's okay to not worry about a thing. It's okay to let someone else make the decision and I can just roll with it. 

Think about the choices you face every day. Think about the things that you think are critically important. Then ask yourself, are they really that important? If someone wants to do someting a different way, ask yourself, "Will this matter in a day, week or year?" If it really doesn't matter... if it really has no negative impact on your objectives, let others make the choices.

Corey Smith and his wife are the proud parents of five wonderful children and live in Meridian, Idaho. He is the president of Tribute Media, a Meridian based Web Consulting firm.

He is the author of two books, "Do It Right: A CEO's Guide to Web Strategy" and "Tweet It Right: A CEO's Guide to Twitter." You can learn more about his books here.

Interested in having Corey speak for your organization? Need help building or marketing your organization? Want to tell Corey how cool you think he is?