I’ve been amassing, for about 3 years, a cupboard of ‘ebay’ stuff. It’s full of purchasing mistakes (rather a lot I’m ashamed to admit), unwanted gifts (yep, no excuse, it sounds ungrateful) and clothes the children have outgrown.We moved house recently and I lovingly packed the whole cupboard up in a box -neatly labelled ‘ebay’ - and carefuly unpacked it into a new cupboard in the new house.
And there it was destined to stay.Because despite my grand plans, I had never actually sold a single item on ebay.
It’s not because I didn’t know how to sell stuff and it’s not because I was hopeless at selling, it’s simply that I never quite got round to it.......because it seemed like such a huge job.
Truly, I had the Everest of unwanted items.
The thought of photographing, writing the details and then mailing all that stuff made me feel ill. So it stayed in the cupboard, and I just felt guilty whenever I went near it.
Then a month or so ago my husband, rather alarmingly, discovered both the cupboard and all my purchasing mistakes. I had two options: divorce or sell the damn stuff.
I chose the latter.
I didn’t sell it all at once, mind, that would be too awful. I decided to do one piece a day, every day, until the job was done.
Today I went to my cupboard to do my daily piece and, joy of joys, it was half empty!
In less than a month my cupboard has gone from looking like a prop on Hoarders to feeling pretty much like the rest of our cupboards (we’re a busy family of 6 , we don’t do perfect).
And here’s the learning - ‘one thing a day’ works.
I have a friend who hates making sales calls (although honestly she is so very good at them that I can’t think why). She started doing the ‘one a day’ in October 2010 and last week she told me that she has doubled her income this year. Go girl!
Another small business I know does the same with debtors - they call one a day; and guess what, they now have cash in the bank.
So here’s my tip: If you have a job that you don’t like, and is repetitive don’t put it off until you can find the time to do it all at once. Decide to do it ‘one a day’. Try it for a month. See what happens.
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