Recently I was asked to write a proposal at work. Writing a proposal is a lot of work - probably the best part of a week full time, and takes a lot of thought. It was to do a piece of work we had been thinking about for a while, but the client was finally ready to consider moving ahead.
I spent a day or so working on the proposal, and then had the thought that I should check what other proposals we'd sent to the client in the last year (we keep a folder for each client with all documents they've been sent) - just so as to seem on the ball.
Anyway, what did I find there, but another proposal, dated six months ago - for the same piece of work, for the same client, BY ME. I had literally written this big, difficult document six months ago. The client had delayed, and now six months later I had completely forgotten that I had written it before. Scary!!
Luckily it meant that I could just change the date on the old proposal and reissue it, so I was saved a week's work.
