The work itself · 2 min read

Finish the small job before you open a new one

Micro Venture Desk ·

Open the book and deal with a small job that is nearly done. Finish the small job before you open a new one. That is the whole agenda.

Interior view of C.F. Hovey and Co., showing salesmen among counters piled with fabric and a dress on form in the foreground, by C.H. Wheeler & Co.
Photograph by C.H. Wheeler & Co. -- Photographer. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons.

Sequence

A one-room shop can finish this: finish it before you accept a new start. Leave software shopping out of it.

The habit to drop

Watch for a nearly done job buried under a new one. That is how a small firm starts telling two stories about the same week.

Close the note when the nearly done job is done or dated. Put the page where Monday-you will see it without a search.

This sits under "The work itself". No forecast is attached, and no result is promised.

A desk note. It does not predict revenue, and it is not tax, legal, or accounting advice.