Was talking to a colleague today about all the admin stuff that needs to be done, how fast it accumulates, and how overpowering it can be. Emails alone take up so much ‘space’. I often refer to them as a disease. (disemails?)
It really got me thinking about how I need to find additional minutes in the day to ‘chip’ away and stay on top of the admin. If we let that manage us, we are toast and we easily fall behind. Seems that the big-ticket items are easier to manage. Someone is in charge, someone takes the lead, someone supervises and they delegate. The work is assigned, and we know what to do, where to be, and what we are responsible for. Nice and clean. I am fine working independently or as part of a team but having someone in charge minimizes decisions and adds clarity to the process. Follow the lead and do as I am told can sometimes be very liberating.
However, I cannot escape all the ‘little things’ that pile up and continue to knock on my door, begging for some closure. There is always something else, something more, something additional that needs attention. And they are no longer little things of insignificance. Quite the contrary, they have now become a huge pile of annoyance.
Manage your odds and ends. Manage the small stuff before it consumes you. Mange the little things.
