Unfinishing business
There are important parts of what we do, that do not have an end. When we talk about building a website for example, the implication is that the job is complete once it has been ‘built’. Except things change (see Bryony Thomas’s nice take on treating a website as an employee). Customer service isn’t a one-off project either, it’s an attitude, structure, and way of working. As someone who is instinctively a ‘destination’ rather than a ‘journey’ person, that can be a hard lesson. What’s made me think about this particularly? Well, actually, the household laundry. Not helpful to get frustrated that ‘it’s never finished’ or ‘I’m way behind’ – it never is and you always will be – maybe better to enjoy / tolerate / learn to live with the journey.
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