When I was meeting with my coach last week, we discussed my issues with numbers. It took me about an hour and a half to try to balance my checkbook (using quickbooks, which makes it easy.) Now I was pulling out my hair trying to figure out what to attribute to which category, how to code transferring money between accounts, etc. My coach told me to just bite the bullet and ask Candy about taking a greater role in it.
Daniel Gerber, of the book, “E-myth” would call this “management by abdication” instead of “management by delegation.” His theory is that you should know how to do each task in your business before you give it to someone else, otherwise, how can you manage them? Hmm. Well, I don’t need to manage Candy, so I’m abdicating my business finances to her. How’s that for justifying my actions?
You know what’s most embarrassing about this? My dad is a retired CPA. The math gene didn’t get passed on to me, apparently. My kindergartner seemed to have gotten the math smarts. He gets 100% on all his math tests. I tease him that someday he’ll be doing the books for my company. My preschooler is going to be a book author or a virtual writer like me. He already takes construction paper and has me staple them together so he can write “books.” He can even read about 10 words. Not bad for a kid who’s not even 4 yet.
Speaking of him, I took my author-VA-in-training to get a speech eval at the local Intermediate Unit. He has articulation problems. Nothing severe, but he’s more difficult to understand than other kids his age, especially with “s”, “p” “g” and a few other sounds. It was really interested to watch the speech pathologist administer his test. He qualifies for speech therapy through the school district and they’ll even come to his preschool to do his therapy in the fall. The woman who did the assessment says she thinks it’ll be a quick fix and he will probably be done with therapy before he starts kindergarten.
I asked the speech therapist if there was any hereditary link to speech problems and she said she didn’t know. If she knew what caused speech problems, she’d retire and be living on a tropical island. My oldest brother had therapy because he couldn’t say “T” sounds. I was in it for not being able to say “ch” and “sh” and a few other sounds. I’m just glad my parents caught it early. Maybe that’s why I’m in tune to it with other kids. I think it’s sad when you see an older kid or adult with speech problems that weren’t corrected early.
Alright, off my soapbox.