This blog was prompted by a daily post blog which I have been following with my personal blog and the topic yesterday was: “Share one thing that you learned recently.” I don’t think I learned this recently but it is something which came back to me last week (and again this morning while I was sat in an office and gave the same advice to someone else).
Last week I was asked by a client/friend for help with the bookkeeping for a small local charity. Of course I said I’d help as the charity means so much to my family and me, the fact that they are paying me is a bonus. Then I walked into the office and saw the enormity of the task before me. Seeing the amount of work to be done I wasn’t sure where to start. Where do you start when there is so much to be done and not a lot of time to do it? What I reminded myself how to do (or learned) this past week is that when you are presented with a huge job like that, it really doesn’t matter where you start, just pick something and start with that. It will all fall into place and you can set up a system to make it better later.
I was reminded of this again today when another girl in the office was overwhelmed with the work she had on her desk and asked “where do I start?” I said, “it doesn’t matter, just pick something to complete and do it.”
