We All Need Help

Now that we are getting ready to start another year, let’s take a few moments to reflect on last year regarding what we did well as well as what we might have done better. As the owner of a Columbus Ohio T-shirt printing company, I found that there is a lot of wisdom in recognizing what you’re good at as well as knowing your weaknesses. After many years of being in the screen printing and custom embroidery industry, I have long been aware of the fact that there is power in a collective effort. There’s an old proverb that reads the cheese stands alone, but that does not hold true in business. I have taken the approach of surrounding myself with excellence. This means that I work with people whose strength are geared towards offsetting all of my weaknesses. For example, I was never any good at math. I was cursed with a disorder called dyslexia and back when I was in high school they didn’t even have a name for this type of disorder. I can remember staying after school and in order to get extra help my father even hired a tutor. In spite of all my efforts, I still never really even understood how to do long division. When it comes to numbers, I see them backwards. Most people who have this type of disorder have problems reading because it’s the words that are out of order, but for me it was always numerals. The point I’m trying to make here is that instead of doing all of my bookkeeping myself, I have a great accountant who is amazing and I go in and see her once a month and allow her to excel at what she is great at instead of trying to do it on my own.

Establishing and maintaining a successful Columbus, Ohio screen printing company is quite challenging to begin with but it’s next to impossible to try to do it on your own. Even if you are blessed with the God-given talents, there are only so many hours in a day as well as so many days in a year and there simply is not time to try and be a one man band. Each separate component of running a custom embroidery and digital T-shirt printing shop is a job in itself. There is also a big difference between someone who can do something compared to an individual that does that same task every day. After a while, they just become more proficient and become experts.

I noticed that people who are great at what they do have a tendency to make it look so easy, but in reality it’s actually very difficult. Once you’ve mastered the art of putting the right individuals in the right places, there are no limits to how far they can take you. Another thing to consider is you don’t have to necessarily like the person to be able to work together. Whether you like them or not is almost irrelevant when you factor in that they don’t even have to live in the same state. You can converse with them via e-mail and never even necessarily meet them.

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