Talking together with my friend, we laughed when we compared the delights we felt with new tasks that we each were currently given the opportunity to explore -- she with a new plant collecting & basket-weaving possibility and I with a new tax return to bite into -- quite a difference in our tasks, but we share a similar pleasure to have these challenges. She commented, "Isn't it wonderful that we all have such different skills and interests to exchange."
I am grateful to my clients for their setting out for me tasks that are unwanted (by themselves) and that I enjoy doing for them and also for the appreciation that they express to me. Even a new unexpected small request -- a printer not working (not a usual bookkeeping task), which I could attend to, find the problem and have it again working smoothly -- brought me satisfaction, both for the resolution of the small task itself and, most especially, because of the delight of the client to have her printer returned to normal quickly and with little fuss.
I am grateful to my clients for their setting out for me tasks that are unwanted (by themselves) and that I enjoy doing for them and also for the appreciation that they express to me. Even a new unexpected small request -- a printer not working (not a usual bookkeeping task), which I could attend to, find the problem and have it again working smoothly -- brought me satisfaction, both for the resolution of the small task itself and, most especially, because of the delight of the client to have her printer returned to normal quickly and with little fuss.
