Well, quite a change from the last few days. My phone rang off the hook today.
As the calls came in, if I didn't know the number, I silenced the ringer and let it go to voicemail. Most of the calls were numbers from out of the area, but many were local numbers. You have to understand, that being out where I was, spending money and unable to make money with my business closed, it was a very hard thing to deal with. Everyone that owns their own business understands this, especially if their business can't run when they're not there. Let's be real, I'm used to having vacation leave built-up, and using it when I'm allowed, but getting paid for the time away. Running my own business, I physically close down the studio therefore killing any possibility of making money while I am out of town.
So as you can imagine, going from a dead week to phone calls coming in that I couldn't do anything about, could be a small bit depressing. But then, I started to think about it, and realized it wasn't all as bad as I was making it out to be. If you think about it, out of the phone calls that had come in, there would be the normal percentage that would be looking for a female therapist. Following that, there would be the percentage that would simply hang up when I answered because I'm not a female therapist. If I'd taken one or two of the calls, and they had turned into sessions, then I could have easily missed other sessions simply because I don't take calls when I'm in the session. So although I got lots of calls, I probably would have only gotten one or two sessions out of them.
So, when you take that into consideration, I didn't miss a whole lot by not being in town.