We all make mistakes - the small, itty bitty ones have no real impact on our lives but other mistakes can be life changing. With many businesses still reeling from COVID, there are mistakes people made in the past 12 months that will continue to have a ripple effect long past the pandemic. If you want to avoid these mistakes and how to recognise you are making them, read on.

This year, I decided I wanted to spread my wings and enter a few business awards. It is not normally something I do, being an accountant, I am used to being in the background. I entered the Women in Finance 2020 and won Accountant of the Year.

Inspired by tidying queen, Marie Kondo, in our last blog post, we looked at the basic benefits of spring cleaning your business . Now you’ve let go of what you don’t need, and created some order around what you’re keeping, let’s go deeper into organising the business-specific categories. To recap, in her book, Kondo suggests a specific order to sorting your categories, from easy, low value items, through to rare or high value items that evoke an emotional response. Sorting your items this way makes it easier and less painful, so you’re more likely to commit to completing the task. With that in mind, I’ve devised the following order to help simplify sorting your business categories…