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Is Business Continuity planning only for businesses?

  

  

  

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What if something terrible happened and you lost everything? How would you recover? I’m not trying to scary here, but let’s think about it. Things happen all the time that cost us some loss. For instance, your battery dies in your phone and you lose your contacts. But it’s ok, because you can sync it with your computer that has the same information on it. You prepared for this potential problem. What if your hard drive in your computer failed and you lost all the photos of your kids that you have been storing there for years? That’s ok top because you have been good about doing your data backup. You have, haven’t you?

You have purchased fire insurance and liability insurance and hopefully health insurance. These are all in place ‘just in case’. So it’s not that you have done nothing about disaster recovery. The question is, have you done enough? Do you even know what is enough or what areas you should be concerned with?

There is more

• technology
• methods of communication
• online banking
• online shopping
• all sorts of daily activities

And with them come great advantages! But they also come with a slew of potential problems.

Do you worry about this stuff? Does it keep you up at night wondering what would happen if you got laid off from your job? How would you pay the bills?

What if:

• your luggage was lost when you travel for work?
• your laptop was stolen that had your company proprietary information on it?
• you left your wallet or pocketbook in the dressing room of a store and it was gone when you realized it and went back?

If these things bother you, if you cause yourself stress by worrying about this sort of thing, you don’t need to! You do not need to feel this anxiety. You need to live your life fully, and have fun, and relax, and focus. You do not need to spend time worry about the ‘what if’s’.  I can show you how to put plans in place to handle many of these problems and any other that is specific to your situation.

There is a process to help you determine what you have that is of value (and you determine what value means) and what you have that is at risk, and establish methods of dealing with it all.  It is the process of planning for Business Continuity. Wait, you say! You are an individual, not a business. Even if you are employed by a business or if you are a business owner, this is about your life. Your personal life is your Personal Business. It’s difficult to separate the two these days anyway! You do want all your personal business and assets to continue and to be protected properly, don’t you? Let’s approach your personal life and assets like it is a business.

These two terms, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, work together.  Planning for them ensures that you, in your personal life, and your family, will be able to:

• survive a disaster
• function through the timeframe of the disaster
• recover to the state you were in previous to the disaster event

This is a way for you to plan to be able to not only survive, but continue to live your life in the best way possible during and get back to the point you had achieved afterwards. How does that sound?