{"id":453,"date":"2008-11-06T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2008-11-14T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T07:14:34","slug":"beyond-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/11\/beyond-the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the call&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read a post by\u00a0Melissa about <a href=\"http:\/\/businessmumsblog.com\/?p=51\" target=\"_blank\">being sick and running your business<\/a>\u00a0and it made me smile. I think I can safely say I went beyond the call of duty for one of my clients last month, on the day Melissa wrote that post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I spent the morning in hospital in false labour and the afternoon doing errands.\u00a0By late afternoon, I was in full labour with painful contractions and received a request for an urgent client newsletter mailing. So I spent the early evening preparing and sending out an email in between major contractions &#8211; and then went back to hospital for my son&#8217;s birth!<\/p>\n<p>Aside from my dedication to client&#8217;s :), managing business during personal health issues is a serious topic for business owners. Do you struggle on and hope you&#8217;ll get better but risk making yourself worse? Do you tell clients you&#8217;re sick and delay their work? Do you get help from somewhere?<\/p>\n<p>As professionals, we want to fulfill promises to clients and deliver on time and to a suitable standard. As people, we need time to recover from illness and time to rest and care for ourselves. It is when these needs clash that we struggle.<\/p>\n<p>The ideal is to prepare for such issues, rather than find ourselves unable to deal with it (imagine being so sick you can&#8217;t even warn clients things are running behind&#8230;) What ways have you prepared your business for your unplanned (or planned) absences?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read a post by\u00a0Melissa about being sick and running your business\u00a0and it made me smile. I think I can safely say I went beyond the call of duty for one of my clients last month, on the day Melissa wrote that post&#8230; I spent the morning in hospital in false labour and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,53],"tags":[86,55,835,836,837,131],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-word-constructions","category-business-info-tools","tag-business","tag-clients","tag-health","tag-illness","tag-sick","tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}