The small business blues

In my study (which, I know, I should call 'home office') I keep a diary about being a mom and the owner of a small business. My life has been so hectic and chaotic lately that the diary ended up at the bottom of a stack of documents.

Yesterday, my accountant rang, urging me to do something about the VAT-admin (deadline: 30 January!). I am late, as ever. So I spent considerable time checking all the invoices, receipts and other financial stuff from the last three months. Nothing to write home about. One of the advantages was, however, that I combined this particular chore with tidying up my study. The diary turned up again. Depressingly enough the last entry (November 07) was about my financial 'mismanagement'. Sometimes it seems as if we're stuck, unable to change.

In a book on Time Management I found a quote that was eerily appropriate:
'If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.'

Indeed!

But I also read somewhere that it's possible to make a fresh start every day, I'll try to keep it in mind.