Ah, weekend. Chores are done, the sun is shining, the kids aren’t squabbling, and the park is looking lush and perfect for a picnic. You’re all set for Sunday funday. Until… Like ants in your picnic basket, thoughts of that pile of unfinished work from Friday keep intruding.
What do you do?
Goodness knows that work will still be there Monday morning. Today is about relaxing, recharging and quality family time.
Buy the kids something sugar-y to eat, promise them unlimited iPad time when you get home, and dash back inside to get started on that work.
How is it possible that this pile of work has got bigger since Friday afternoon? It’s not just enormous anymore, it has developed its own centre of gravity and is starting to suck other piles of work into it. It is now actually impossible.
What do you do?
There is literally no way a single person can get through all this. You need to escalate this, now!
Oh well. What’s that saying? “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” You got this.
Gah! It’s already 4.30 pm on Monday afternoon, and you’re still bravely snacking on that elephant. You haven’t even checked your emails yet.
Do you:
Take a break for 15 minutes to check your emails. Since when has checking emails been a treat? *sigh
This elephant is not going to eat itself. You’re slowly making progress. Remember, slow and steady wins the race. Just keep going, it’s going to quieten down eventually.
Turns out that what you thought was a busy phase, is in fact your new normal. You suspect you will be taking this boring, repetitive work to your grave with you.
Darn. At your next quarterly company review meeting, Celeste gets awarded the top achiever prize: an all-expenses paid trip to Vegas! Why? For implementing RaaS in your company, which she found out about, yes you guessed it, from the email from Open Box!
You really should have opened that email and learned more about RaaS! You immediately put a priority flag on all Open Box communications.
The Open Box email introduces you to Rob Sparke. His superpower is making light work of the repetitive, boring tasks you hate. And he’s going to change your life.
So, what do you think?
Rob Sparke is the answer to tackling this elephant of work. You show the video to your boss immediately.
Clever, but you said 15 minutes of emailing only. Time’s up and you need to get back to eating your elephant one bite at a time.
Six months later and all your competitors have implemented RaaS, and are spending their time on more important things. You, on the other hand, are still stuck at your desk, tackling the never-shrinking mountain of work.
You should have paid more attention to Open Box. They’re onto something big with Rob Sparke.
You’re basically employee of the month for the next five years. RPA is implemented in record time, everyone loves it, you’ve been promoted to the innovation team, and you never work on the weekend again. Winning!
You dash home and power up your laptop, resigning yourself to working for the rest of the day.
Where do you start?
Start capturing those invoices. Some are looking a bit dated already. Oops.
Tackle those journal entries. It can’t be a good thing to go this long without the foggiest idea of your cash flow situation.
So while you have always nurtured a spirit of healthy inquiry, you really wish your kids hadn’t started their experimentation phase with finding out what things sink, and what things float. Using your iPad as subject A.
You should have proceeded with your picnic in the park and let RaaS do your boring, repetitive work.
You dash into the room and see, instead of the expected disaster, little Jane about to take her first steps! And to think you almost missed it because of those journal entries.
What do you think?
That’s it. Life is too short to miss moments like these. Things need to change. Today!
So adorable. There’s no way you can go back to your boring journal entries now. They’ll still be there Monday, after all.
You’ve figured out how many herbs, at how many farmers’ markets, you are going to have to sell to get the kids through college. Let's just say, it's a lot!
Perhaps you should have kept the hydroponics for a weekend hobby, and rather automated the boring, repetitive tasks in your day job with RaaS.
OK. Ultimatum time. You’re meeting your boss now, and you are ready to change the world.
Do you:
Tell your boss about RaaS and how it can automate boring, repetitive work such as invoice capturing and journal entries. Saving your company time and money. And freeing you up for more important things (like weekends!).
Threaten to quit immediately if you don’t get to hire more people to help with your workload today.
Oh good. Now you feel like you are running a kindergarten at work as well as at home. These students and interns are more effort than they are worth. And the work just keeps coming!
You should have hired Rob Sparke to help out instead.
You show your boss the "Open Box MRI invoice capture" video and it’s an instant hit!
You’re now in charge of implementing RaaS immediately. Rob Sparke takes over the heavy lifting, you spend your time on more strategic work, and you never work weekends again!
Argh! Turns out capturing invoices and being shot in the eye with a nerf gun is *not* a winning combination. You end up overpaying a supplier by $10,000. Big whoops!