Maybe this week wasn’t the best to do a series on Roles. I found myself immersed in several end-of-year financial projects for clients that will continue through next week.

What has made this week doable in the midst of all the number crunching and data “massaging” has been keeping on top of it all by following this general rule of thumb: guestimate how long a project will take to complete and then double it. Schedule the doubled amount time.

Then, when things don’t go quite as planned, there’s no rush! or… when it goes even better than planned, go do something fun!