I usually spend March pretty close to home in Melbourne. It’s one of my favourite months. It is a great time to embrace the last of the warm weather and sadly to mourn the loss of daylight savings. It’s the month to walk in still-balmy evenings or to wallow in afternoons that go on forever.
But we need to be efficient time managers because March is an especially great time to make money. It’s nearly always my highest turnover month. I have always figured that’s because people bounce back from January holidays, get in touch, and it’s March that I’m billing them for the latest project. So March is a joy.
For those who operate their businesses on the standard financial year, the end of March signifies the start of the run to home. One trading quarter to go. Tax issues to plan for. Targets still to be met, perhaps.
For those like me who think the year starts at the beach and finishes when Santa comes, four times the first quarter’s turnover might suggest the year’s income. There are lots of sums to do.
March is a great time to take control of our year as soloists can perhaps more than anyone else. It’s time to plan a treat or two for later in the year. Maybe a family holiday or a lovers’ tryst. A week at a spa? Two weeks surfing? Three weeks in France? We will be glad we thought ahead when the time comes.
March is a great time to take up a hobby. When the end of the year comes around, what will we want to look back on our year and have done?
A great year’s work? Sure. Quality encounters with those we value? Of course. But what if we could say we started to learn a language? Say French for the trip to France we are planning, for example. What if we looked back and said we learnt about Mozart or Puccini or catalogued our entire INXS collection? What if we could look proudly at the tree house we built with our kids or the garden we planted or the quilt we made or the 43 books we had read (one a week from now till Christmas)?
What would make it a great year?
March is a great time to put our plans into action and become good time managers.
March for me is birthday month. I did say it was one of my favourites. So, for me and other Pisceans, March is a great time to celebrate another year of life, good health and good fortune.
“ For those who operate their businesses on the standard financial year, the end of March signifies the start of the run to home. ”
Karen Morath of M Power consults, trains, speaks and coaches in public relations, personal effectiveness, life balance and all things empowering.
