Amy McNaughton
Yesterday was a pretty exciting day for me. I started off with a client and then later in the afternoon I got my business line hooked up in my office.
I’ve been kind of working out of my office since the first of October and yet I’ve only been going up if I have a client or have paper work to do and need a quiet space. This was not my desire and yet it was suggested to me by “An Expert.” 
Remember when you got pregnant (if you have children) that all of these experts came streaming out of the woodwork with their expert advice? Remember that a majority of them didn’t have children of their own and had never been pregnant? Well, back then I polite and took what they had to offer into consideration and then ended up doing a trial and error thing.
Well, since I started my business the same type of experts came out of the wall and totally unexpected this time. And to my dismay, I actually listened to some of them – after all what do I know about running a business, it’s my first time.?
So lets see…As a new business owner you need to watch your spending. Hmmmm, well now I can say yes and no. From the very beginning I was told, “Don’t get a business phone number cause it will cost over $100. a month and that’s an expense that you don’t need. Hmmm, I think not. For a little over 5 months I haven’t had Internet or a business line at my office. I was forwarding calls for my phone line (in my name only) from the home office to my cell phone so that I wasn’t totally without a phone. The rationale behind this that was shared with me by an expert was, “You’re clients see you by appointment only and when you see them you turn your phone off so what’s the use of spending money for nothing?”
It sounded quite logical and I went with that for a while (5 months) 
and yet the whole time my body was saying – do what is meaningful and fun for you…not what the experts are saying.
Well I’ve said this in my other blog as well as this previous one…The Emerging Futures: Entrepreneurial Women’s Retreat allowed me to clearly see everything that I had been feeling in my body but this time I could no longer ignore the impulse.
I came home and the same day, I called the phone company to find out how much it would cost to have a business line. Well get ready for this. It’s costing me about $6. more a month and that is for High Speed Internet, advertisement in the White and Yellow pages of the phone book and not to mention my phone line of course. And before I was paying only for the phone line and for $6. more I get so much more.
When seeking suggestions (not advice) from someone, I suggest that you go to someone that you truly trust and then take a few minutes to research their suggestion (because things get updated on regular basis and there may be something new that will better serve) before just going with what one person suggested. ALSO…don’t do as I’ve done by denying the truth of my experience. For 5 months I’ve wanted a business line and now I have one and it feels pretty damn good. Oh yes, and by the way….2 minutes after the phone company called me to confirm that the line was now active as a business line, the phone rang and I booked an appointment. Let me tell you that that was an awesome feeling.
I’m sharing this information as part of a learning experience. Now that I’ve experienced it and it didn’t feel that great…you don’t have to. You can choose differently.
I believe that I’m here to share my life with others and that means the experiences that I have whether it be business, parenting, thoughts on health or any other aspect of my life.
Letting go of the Past and….Growing Forward!
Amy
