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It's Good Enough

I have been learning to use a new invoicing software program for the last few weeks.  I have no manual and no tutorials.   And, need I say, I am not an accountant.  I am intimidated by the program, the terminology, the lack of a help that is helpful, and trying to figure out how to create a logo, where does it go?  What the heck are these fields? 

I know the program can do what I need and I know it is probably easy –once you know how to do it.  And therein lies the key.  I don't know how to do it.  I have been fumbling through for the past 3 weeks and so far, no light at the end of the tunnel.   I have managed to create 5 invoices and I am hopeful that our clients are not looking too closely at the formatting.  The numbers are correct, the dates and amounts are accurate and that is as much as I have accomplished.  

Every time I think I have it down and go to print an invoice, I see something that didn't appear where I thought it would—the company name, the addressee,  or the name of the project.  I miss the days when there was an instruction manual that went with everything.  You could look up how to do whatever you wanted and the instructions were 1,2,3.  Now, everything is a video and I am not a visual learner. 

I guess it is only fair that the world has evolved to be the digital native land that is more comfortable with an icon than a word.  I feel like I am driving a model T in a flying car world sometimes. 

I do my best to adapt to the change in information flow.  I check forums and you tube for instructions.  I have even resorted to going old school and making a phone call complete with endless voice mail directions.   It is very much like learning a foreign language through immersion. 

I have been living with the motto "it's good enough" for the last 6 months.  It may seem like giving up but for me it has been helpful.  I am managing my expectations and my energies by deciding it's good enough whatever it is.  This last week I have added a phrase "it's good enough and just right."   

It worked with the Christmas tree, it worked with the cleaning, it worked with the plans for Christmas, it worked with the invoices.   I will not give up.  I will learn how to add projects and budgets in the program.  I will learn how to format the logo, emails, and invoices.  I will learn how to add customers and have their names show up the way and where I want.  For today, it's good enough.
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