Excavating Home Office Space

When I first opened doors to my Atomic Tangerine office in Downtown Orlando I had planned to move most of my home office in there. Long story short, you’d be surprised how quickly office space disappears when you add people to it! So later this  year when the lease expires we’ll be moving to a bigger office in Orlando.

Now, this is part my laziness part poor planning and part unwillingness to look at the stages of my business I’d rather not see again. Like the ghost of IT business marketing past I sat through the old marketing gimics, flyers, registration cards, business card ziplock bags and more unopened software than a flea market warez dealer.

I’ve through out equipment that I recall costing thousands upon thousands of dollars that by today’s standards belongs in the museum. Almost sentimental type of stuff, like the first Cisco wireless AP bridge. Business cards from when I first started my business. Business licenses from 1997.

Though I probably need to spend one more weekend back there to disassemble all the crap and throw away all my books that I will never need to reference again, I’m pretty confident that I will now at least have some place other than my couch to work from. TV lineups are a bitch.

So who cares, right?

Well, there is a point in all this. The point is that there is no such thing as a “I don’t have a time to run a business” if you intend to survive. There is only deferral, letting things pile up until you’re forced to waste far more time, energy and effort to compensate for what you should be doing all along.

As 2008 comes to a close, what have you let just slide this year that you can fix and get straightened out over the next week and a half?