This week has been a struggle. After four years and therapy, I'm coping with the process of finalising my parents' effects.

The large looming pile in our living room, artfully draped with a blanket was SHOUTING AT ME. For three hours I swam through the emotional soup of old cards, clippings, photos, and mementoes of long forgotten trips as a child.

The relics of holidays, the souvenirs held in small hands dredges up big feelings, spilling out and sliding over each other like grief Tetris. Random pieces of lives lived before, and during my own existence tumble out of musty blocky boxes, a goopy mess of emotions.

Trying hard not to drown in the weight of the current pressing so hard up against the past. Rattling, clanking, the ties that bind like Marley's ghost.

Trying to somehow shape some meaning out of it all, but it's like assembling a Lego set by tipping it down a waterslide. You’ve about as much chance of infinite monkeys writing a passable first draft Hamlet than organising the pell-mell waterfall of life.

Yet, in the middle of this swirling stew of nostalgia, regret, love, and confusion, an odd business truth floats to the surface: there’s no Ctrl+Z in life or in leadership.

No do-overs. Only onward, but hopefully wiser from lessons learned…

Every entrepreneur faces the overwhelming pile, or shapeless problem that resists tidy solutions. The answer is; "buckle up, buttercup" and keep moving.

You find meaning not in the chaos, but in the persistence and perseverance. One box, problem or decision at a time.

Switching from the deeply personal back to the business? That’s resilience. That’s emotional multitasking. And frankly, that’s the job.

So yes, we plough on, because forward is the only direction life allows for us.

Be kind to yourself.