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When our office manager quit to pursue better and more lofty opportunities (all the power to them!!), I gave her one final task for her last week or so — list every single thing that you are responsible for.

In essence, I asked her to note down everything that made up her carrying capacity on a day-to-day basis.

At the same time, I realised that if I tasked myself with this very same exercise, I would simultaneously be horrified by the amount that I am (at least partially) responsible for, and terrified that I'd forgotten something in that list.

To this day I have not done this exercise.



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