With many thanks to Kevin Sheldrake for promising NOT to use the expression as a title before I got round to it…

Which – if you think about it – is both positive and depends on me NOT procrastinating.

But it came up in conversation earlier this week and he remarked that it sounded just like a killer title hence, well you get the drift.

Hmm.

I’m desperately trying to remember whether this is something I’ve covered in the past but, if it is, it’s not for some time and it’s probably about time I covered it again.

It follows on from last week’s post and the idea of a to don’t list (for new readers, this isn’t a spelling mistake).

This week has been nightmarish. A perfect storm of:

1. charity client
2. more funds than the average charity (28 actively in use)
3. we’ve moved them from one sort of accounting software to a cloud-based offering
4. my statutory accounts software supplier has introduced a new platform, and
5. the Charity Commissioners and my own Institute have taken the opportunity to alter the bl00dy rules.

In both 3 and 4 the move has led to the tracking function information having to be re-entered as it doesn’t map fully – I’m guessing in 4 that this is because there are not too many prospective clients of clients with much in the way of complication to justify the additional expenditure that would have been involved (the money would never have been recoverable in the short term) and in 3 the move was from one platform to another and free conversion of historical data was given but – again – the cost of adding the functionality would probably not been a good use of scarce resources.

The downside is that this process sucked out over two days of time in the week leading up to our hols, thereby nearly precipitating a nervous breakdown!

You can of course up your hours to compensate but something will give.

The sense of blessed relief when it was all done and the queries go back to the client and it’s somebody ELSE’s problem until I get back was quite tangible.

Bliss.

All too often there is the sensation that someone has been taking the bliss (or something like that anyway).

Talking of hols, have you SEEN the Georgian alphabet? For reasons lost in the mists of time I can read the letters in the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets but Georgian is like nothing I’ve come across before.

The modern Georgian alphabet consists of 33 letters:

Many thanks to Wikipedia for the above! The sum total of which is that the one letter I thought I could recognise I can’t actually see in the grid. S’life.

What’s that? I’ve not touched positive procrastination? Maybe I’ll leave it to next time.