I recently had to spend a few days in hospital with a serious infection. As a normally healthy person, this was a complete shock to me. The onset of the illness was quite sudden and I was very unprepared for managing my business during this incapacitation. This experience has taught me that one’s health is so very important but also the importance of having contingency plans in place for one’s business. Luckily, I was able to enlist the assistance of my cousin to email my clients and let them know what had happened and that I would be out of action for a week or so. My photographic memory enabled me to remember most of the email addresses off the top of my head and a little research by my cousin found the ones I could not remember. For the most part this worked quite well, but it also was a timely reminder that I need to finish putting together my business manual so that this information can be easily accessed in my absence.  Good planning can avoid this type of stress during an illness or while on vacation, times when one needs to be relaxing and not thinking about the business.

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