Rhea Serna trained in management accounting and spent her early career in bookkeeping and tax. When remote working opened up in 2020 she started picking up operations, systems and communications alongside the admin she had been hired for, and ended up in strategy. She is now a core team member of The Collective, working across several time zones at once.In this episode she walks Jen Halsall de Wit through the system that keeps it all moving. She writes everything down. She breaks large pieces of work into smaller ones with room left to revise. She sorts a full list by deadline, by impact, and by who else is waiting on her before she touches anything.She also shares the three questions she asks before taking on a task. Does this need to be done? Does it need to be done by me? Does it need to be done now?Jen shares her own method for clearing a crowded head, and the two compare notes on what gets them from overwhelm back into function.Chapters00:00 Introduction01:47 From accounting to strategy04:46 Staying organised without a perfect system06:58 Urgent, important, or neither10:01 Much too much muchness11:59 Brain dumps: notebooks, voice notes and AI14:01 What to drop, delay or delegate16:08 Where to start on a very long list19:08 Wellness, energy and being more than your output22:06 The next chapter23:24 Trusting that the dots connect26:01 Collective spotlightConnecting the Dots is the podcast from The Collective. New episodes every Tuesday.https://www.wearethecollective.world/podcastConnect with Rhea: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rheagserna/

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