My business week in Mexico!

The first week of the holiday is over and the company has not gone under yet haha!

Freedom as an entrepreneur
Having a holiday is nothing unusual, all employees have it for several weeks every year. As an entrepreneur, however, it is a bit more of a luxury like this at the beginning of your career. You are locked into your responsibility, I have to work more than 40 hours a week and can never drop everything to 100% but need to be a little standby at a distance even when I am free and taking 5 weeks off would definitely not work.

But I still feel more free!

I do not have to ask anyone for permission before I go on holiday, I can take a last minute trip and I set up my working hours exactly as I want. If I want to work 24 hours straight one day to be free the next day, I GET :)

And not to mention the future, I will never want to stop working but can really long for both the finances and the practicalities to be so self-sufficient that I can set up every single minute of work exactly as I want without risking anything. Fy so wonderful!

Here was the first day on the beach, so happy!

Relax on the holiday as an entrepreneur
To be free from work tasks and to be able to relax and feel Being free is two different things. How did it go for me on holiday then? I have quite easily stressed out when I see work matters and have therefore deliberately turned off a lot. I have only answered the most urgent emails and those that are quick to respond, I have turned off notifications from social media and only check in quip (our communication program at the salon) when I have time to grab things if needed, I open not the notices when I'm lying on the beach, just woke up or something like that when I'm just going to enjoy the holidays.

I have not opened the schedule once, when I would book a customer in a few weeks who emailed me, I kept the screen before I changed the date so I did not see today's bookings haha. I know that if there are a lot of bookings, I will be stressed because it is stressful at the salon when we can not help at the reception. And if, on the contrary, there are big gaps in the schedule, I will be stressed about the finances instead as I can not do anything about it from here.

Now it sounds like me is stressad på semestern, men tack vare ovanstående “regler” för mig själv så har jag sluppit det! :) Jag har haft några få slängar av stresstankar men nu har jag kommit ner i varv och känner att jag litar på personalen på salongen så mycket att dom kommer på alla eventuella problemlösningar själv! :)

Speaking of relaxation, I offer a picture of Miska on the beach! He is as calm as a person and that is exactly what I need, when I get stressed I have the calmest person in the world to lean on and it is really worth its weight in gold. Had Miska been someone who worries and stresses, we would probably have triggered each other so much that my nerves would have broken a long time ago haha.

Move to Mexico!
Last Monday we sat at breakfast for a very long time, you can take your own thermos of coffee to the table and we emptied it completely and just sat and felt life in us haha.

I always get so inspired when I sit with Miska and talk, we have decided to live abroad in the future but not exactly which country. Now that we are in Mexico, it feels like the obvious choice, I love the atmosphere, nature, wildlife, the air!

Och var vi ska bo i framtiden hör i allra högsta grad ihop med företagandet, det är så lätt att tänka “jag vill starta upp det här, jag vill göra det här!” men man måste gå tillbaka i grunden och tänka “how do I want to work? ” and build a career based on it.

Jag vill ha ett jobb där jag inte är bunden till en plats, utan kan jobba mycket på distans. Då kan jag bo var som helst i hela världen! Jag vill alltså inte ha ett “vinterhus” dit jag åker när jag är ledig, utan vill ha kvar mitt hus hemma i Gimo + ha ett hus utomlands där jag bor och jobbar stora delar av året, sen kan jag bo i Gimo när jag är på möten i Sverige och hälsar på familjen :)

Understand so wonderful! And financially, there are no strange things, the only thing that has to work is that you should have a job where you can work large parts remotely. For a house in Mexico costs about as much as a house in Sweden.

What I love about Mexico and our hotel is the wildlife! It is crowded with polar bears (in the picture you see a baby!) And also agoutis (an animal I have never seen before you can google if you do not know haha) and lots of nice birds and even a deer lying and sleeping outside the balcony here a day. I love animals and see in front of me that I will be a crazy nose bear lady in our future Mexico house haha!

Delegate more
Förra business-veckan skrev jag under “learning by doing” att jag ofta lägger ner massor av tid på jobb som inte kommer till användning i den utsträckning att det är värt tiden jag lägger ner.

Speaking of which, I also came across three (!) Times the same week that I took on more jobs that I did not really need to do. So what I wrote about last week was about things that could have been skipped altogether, but another thing that I also need to get better at is taking help from others and realizing that it is not necessarily I who will perform all tasks when there are other people with gaps in the schedule and I am de-stressed.

But it's so hard to delegate things because I take on stuff without even reflecting on it.

1. Vi fick en bokningsförfrågan utanför öppettid och en kollega frågade om det var ok om Lisa jobbar längre den dagen. Jag skulle precis säga “jag ska höra av mig till henne och fråga” när jag fick svaret “jag kan ringa henne och fråga” och ja det var ju väldigt mycket smidigare än att jag ska vara en mellanhand och först fråga Lisa och sen meddela vidare om hon kunde eller inte innan kunden kunde bli uppringd igen :)

2. Ida frågade mig om vi hade tillräckligt med kvittorullar. Jag tog upp pennan och skulle skriva på min to do list att kolla upp det och hon ba “jag kan kolla själv annars jag bara undra om du visste direkt” haha.

3. En annan kollega hade en fråga om en sak på lönebeskedet som jag inte kunde svaret på, dom får lönebeskeden i mail av vår ekonomi-person och mitt svar var “jag ska maila henne och fråga” varpå jag igen fick svaret “fast jag kan maila själv” haha. Återigen hade jag bara blivit en mellanhand vilket är helt onödigt.

All of these things are super small, but many streams are small and when there are people who have time left over. Delegating more is my new New Year's promise haha!

Visste ni att det finns en “regel” som säger att 20% av allt jobb man lägger ner bidrar med 80% av resultatet? Det är som att jag har 6st hårt arbetande armar men bara en av dom som gör någon nytta. Ganska frustrerande haha.

No, now I will continue my Sunday here in Mexico! Hugs are!