The Only Person Who Knew How To Drive The Boat Was The Skier
The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
The Only Person Who Knew How To Drive The Boat Was The Skier
And that skier was me.
I was the best skier among my friends, one of the worst on one side of my family, and moderately accomplished on the lake where we live*. I have been a super lucky duck to have had some of the best boat drivers in the ski world, including my starter-husband and a few other relatives.
Our lake is home to a world-renowned, high-level waterski training centre with the best, newest and swankiest ski & wakeboard boats. And I have had a few sexy ones of my own over the years: a Ski Nautique, a Mastercraft and a Malibu. Having my own boat gave me the advantage of skiing early in the morning when the training centre was busiest, running out at random moments to catch perfect times on the water when the wind dipped, and to tow my boat to ski at friends’ cottages. It worked great because I had people to drive the boat for me.
Until I didn’t.
Starter-husband and I went our merry ways (turns out, there are better reasons to marry someone other than they are a good boat driver 🤣🤣), my driver relatives moved away, and that left current-husband to drive the boat. Which happened exactly once, because apparently I can issue orders of how to drive from the end of a 75’ line, in a less-than-patient manner. To someone who didn’t want to drive for me in the first place…
So I sold the boat, and skied exclusively at the training centre. In the end, it worked out fine because, in addition to not having a driver, my boats required endless maintenance.
The way we run our businesses can feel like this. How can we be all things, wear so many hats and feel accomplished? What do you need to give up to someone else or to technology to have a better business life?
If it happens to be getting someone to do your firm’s internal QBO bookkeeping, I’m your gal.
*This is the story of all our lives, no? Many of us are big dogs to some, and hamsters compared to others…
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