Zoe Girl
3-16-19, 8:46am
I think some people know what the 'impossible task' is, that thing you are stuck on that is just not getting done and you can't totally explain why. For me it is the last donor letters for the non-profit I took over as treasurer for. I knew this was a big job, and I did all the letters for people who donated through pay pal. It has been hard to get the actual information to do the letters for the check donations first of all. It seems the last year has been a mess. My teacher (that is supported by the non-profit) is quite challenged by organizational tasks. I finally got a set of spread sheets and some of them are from the previous year. To get motivated and feel like I know what is happening I entered the last year into QuickBooks and reconciled the checking account. However I am only minimally motivated.
In any case it appears I actually have the information now, and it is already March which is horrible (as a side note I asked to take over this job later in the year but I got it in January and pulled some nights to midnight to get the large batch of letters out). Tomorrow is the board meeting so I am doing them today. I bought envelopes even and can print letters at Office Max. I probably won't get all the things done for the board meeting (workman's comp insurance, an accounting of specific medical funds donated, and a solid statement of where we are financially). I think this is actually some perfectionism as shown by balancing the last year of the checking account as a double check for these donations rather than just doing the letters.
Going forward I have set up a shared google doc for all deposits! And a protocol for anyone who deposits funds so I can actually track what the heck is going into the account easily.
In any case it appears I actually have the information now, and it is already March which is horrible (as a side note I asked to take over this job later in the year but I got it in January and pulled some nights to midnight to get the large batch of letters out). Tomorrow is the board meeting so I am doing them today. I bought envelopes even and can print letters at Office Max. I probably won't get all the things done for the board meeting (workman's comp insurance, an accounting of specific medical funds donated, and a solid statement of where we are financially). I think this is actually some perfectionism as shown by balancing the last year of the checking account as a double check for these donations rather than just doing the letters.
Going forward I have set up a shared google doc for all deposits! And a protocol for anyone who deposits funds so I can actually track what the heck is going into the account easily.