Have you ever started a business? If you have and it has been any length of time you'll understand what I mean when I say that it can be consuming. If you've ever lived with or had a friend that started a business you probably know what I mean.

It's so easy to get consumed because you have to do everything ... sales, product/service development, customer service, accounting, and even empty the trash. Then over time your business grows (hopefully). You earn more clients. You start to hire folks to help with customer service and accounting. You start to take feedback from those around you on what you should do and how you might do it. Without even knowing it you might even start relying too much on those around you. Sounds kinda crazy, but it happens ... it happened to me.

I had forgotten that it was my intuition and vision that had gotten us to where we were. The folks that work at IWI are great folks and all of them dedicated to our success as a company. I care for each and every one of them.

What I was doing wasn't their fault. They were giving feedback that I had asked for. What had happened was my fault. I was taking feedback and then NOT making the decisions that needed to be made. It's not like IWI was on a decline or we had made some terrible decisions or that we were losing clients. Not at all.

The type of decisions that I had made years ago that started the run up to where we are now ... those decisions weren't going to carry us forever. It was time to start making the tough calls again. Sometimes the unpopular calls. Not arrogant or uneducated decisions, just tough ones.

Well, the time has come for me to grow up a bit and grab that bull by the horns once more. The future is looking bright for not just us as a company, but for our clients and their successes.

Oh, by the way I still take out my own trash!