What happens when the business you have been building and working on has down times? For me, what happens when a customer cancels your service? Whether it is a one time cancellation or a permanent cancellation, the loss of income is going to hurt.
I happen to be running into that issue today! First thing this morning, a customer cancelled my service permanently. I kind of thought this wouldn't last anyway. She is a young, newly divorced mom with a three year old. When I gave her an estimate, she immediately worked me on lowering the price... which I did. And then she wouldn't stop talking about how "guilty" she felt hiring someone to clean her house.
A few hours later, another client called to cancel me for this week. She was able to catch up with the house chores during the long weekend.
Am I upset? You bet. This is a huge blow to my income. However, as hard as it is to not be upset, I have to put my faith in God.
Okay, I am a Christian woman. So, putting my faith in God should be an easy thing to do, right? Well, no, not always. Sure, I most certainly do believe that He is going to take care of this. The faith side of me knows that. But it also knows that He may not take care of things the way I hope that He does. Which, of course, would be two new customers! Human thinking.
Here is where my faith thinking "common senses" with my human thinking. I have mentioned before that house cleaning is not what I want to do long term. I also mentioned that I had another idea(s) for that long term business venture (more on that at a later time). My faith tells me that this is God's way of encouraging me to put more focus on that and not use the cleaning success to slow it down.
How do you handle your disappointments?
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