Client case study: Do THIS to fit in big annual business tasks (like tax prep and accounting) when you’re short on room in your weekly business schedule!

I know you've got a nice, everyday, taking-care-of-my clients and handling-my-kids set of routines down.

In fact, you really like your typical work-from-home life!

But then comes along the reconciling, or the end-of-year accounting, or the back-end inventory-ing, and you HATE those tasks.

Not to mention, because you hate them, you've been putting them off for months, so you REALLY have a snowed-under to-do list!

It's not just a matter of entering this week's transactions - oh, no. It's more like “enter the last 9 months of transactions, and hope I get everything right!”

Your avoidance feelings make complete sense from a work/life balance perspective - because this one nasty task has gotten built up so much, that it's almost insurmountable to picture yourself actually making a dent in it!

So of course you're feeling discouraged and overwhelmed and not doing anything about it.

But what if you asked someone else for help…. And she told you THIS?

You’ve got this!

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Transcript

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about where to fit in big annual business tasks (like tax prep and accounting) when you’re short on room in your weekly business schedule.

I know you've got a nice, everyday, taking-care-of-my clients and handling-my-kids set of routines down.

In fact, you really like your everyday work-from-home life.

But then comes along the reconciling, or the end-of-year accounting, or the back-end inventory-ing, and you *hate* those tasks.

Not to mention, *because* you hate them, you've been putting them off for *months*, so you *really* have a snowed-under to-do list!

It's not just a matter of entering this week's transactions - oh, no. It's more like, enter the last 9 months of transactions, and hope I get everything right!

Your ugh feelings make *complete* sense from a work/life balance perspective - because this has gotten built up so much, that it's almost insurmountable to picture yourself actually making a dent in it!

So of course you're feeling discouraged and overwhelmed and not doing anything about it.

But what if you asked someone else for help…. And she told you THIS?

What's the least stressful, easiest, most grace-giving way you can do that accounting,  reconciling, or any other important-and-kind-of-urgent business tasks that you’ve been putting off (‘cause it won’t fit in your daily WFH routine)?

• Is there an extra work day (that you'd been meaning to take off) that you could redirect to taking a chunk out of this project?
• Is there a "20 minutes only during lunch" strategy you could employ so you never feel like you're on the hook for ginormous parts of it at one time
• Or even a contractor you could temporarily employ so that you didn't have to deal with it at all?

You have a lot of options here - so pick the one that sounds least stressful to YOU.

Because it's not about what's the most efficient way to go about this, or what I would do in your place - it's about which strategy YOU find easiest to get up and take action on. 

That's it.

'Cause with a project this size, and the inertia of inaction this strong, ANYTHING that gets you moving is better.

I don't care if that's "enter one transaction and reconcile another one and shut down" today. 

You just need to get (and keep) moving.

*That’s* how you move through the “what option should I pick” blues when it’s really taking action, *any* action, that’s going to get you on the other side of this.

And *this* is why my work/life balance coaching is *not* about how many pomodoro timers you set, or how many frogs you can eat before 9am, or how often you’re getting up at 4:45 in the morning - it’s about *blending* the easiest possible strategy to *you* with the results/goal/milestone you’re achieving on the other side.

I’m actually *customizing* all these work/life balance hacks to *you*.

Because watching you light up about your work day again, and get to knock off work and snuggle the kids after a needle-moving day on the backend, and gleefully hand off the toilet scrubbing for ever and ever? 

*That’s* my personal business why. 

So. Back to you. Which sounds like the least stressful, most easily doable, smallest ask way of tackling this project?

That's the one. Go put that on your to-do list right now.

Don't let those efficiency experts tell you you're doing this the wrong way. You're not.

You're doing this the *right* way for *you*.

Now go do this.