Last week I found an email from LinkedIn telling me “You have 1031 contacts you may know on LinkedIn! Would you like to connect with them?” No! I would not! That’s way too many! I’m not going to look over a list of thousands of contacts – maybe if they’d sent a list of 10.
It’s the same thing when you’re tackling the projects of running a small business, or a mail room. It’s too easy to see everything that needs to be done, get overwhelmed by the sheer number of tasks, and do none of them.
When planning my work calendar, I break out my task list into sets of reasonable goals. What five things can I finish this week? What five things will take more than a week, and of those, what steps can I take this week? I continue breaking down the list until I know what needs to be done each day to reach the end of my task list (and then I make a new task list).
It’s like the old joke,
“How do you eat an elephant?”
“One bite at a time.”
For more ideas on Mail Room Management, check out my previous posts:
When In Doubt, Help Them Out: For Your Colleagues Struggling With Their Mail Rooms
Source: HubSpot
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