Are you a fan of Call the Midwife? It’s not on the TV at the moment of course, but I have spotted on social media that they are making a new series, so it will be back for the Christmas Day special, and on again in the new year. Something to look forward to for the longer dark nights.
But why, do you ask, do I mention this? Well, because Shelagh, one of the characters in Call the Midwife, said something back in the Christmas episode of 2017 that really resonated with me. The episode was set in the big freeze of 1963, and the midwives did their best to provide the best care for their patients, whilst battling against blizzards and burst pipes. It was all hands on deck to help during the weather crisis, so Shelagh returned to work.
She said, to quote “If I don’t do too much, not enough gets done”
Do you ever feel like that? I know I do sometimes, especially at home. Tidying up, washing up, clearing up. It almost always all seems to fall to me. So after a lovely half-term week away by the seaside, and home for a jubilee weekend of celebrations, I am still catching up on the holiday washing, re-arranging the fridge to find the food we need for dinner, behind all the celebratory leftovers, tripping up on the stuff on the stairs waiting to find the way to it’s rightful home, until the next holiday or royal occasion.
But it’s not only in our personal lives that we sometimes feel like that. Sometimes it’s in our work lives. Much like Shelagh, we feel that if we don’t do it, no one else will.
When we run a business by ourselves, and don’t employ staff, we sometimes feel we have to do it all. But we don’t, we can buy varying services to help us. Just like at home, we might pay a cleaner, a gardener, or someone to do our ironing. At work/in business we can pay an accountant or book-keeper, a business coach, an insurance broker, and many other services. And of course we can pay a Virtual Assistant (VA), to do the jobs that are too much for us.
Rather than you do too much, get in touch and discuss how a VA can help you.
“If I don’t do too much, not enough gets done”
Shelagh’s character in call the midwife Christmas 2017