Time To Chop Wood?

During a conversation with a client recently, I was asking her what she was planing to do next week and her reply was to chop wood! So I asked what did she mean and she explained that everything around the business was in a mess and it was time to put things back, getting order into place, get ourselves grounded again with the basics, re-establish our foundations.

After thinking about this it started to make sense to me after all, there are times when our big dream is meant to lie dormant, it could be when many clients are on holiday, just after completion of a big project or when things are just very quiet so, putting order back into our business makes sense, as when we are busy we do not have the time to be doing the simple house keeping, like clearing up, putting all our tools away, servicing equipment, filing, doing the accounts, ….

I am minded of a gardener, the timely pruning a tree is the forerunner of enjoying beautiful fruit when it is harvest time. The mundane act of clearing up the dead leaves, watering and then letting nature take it’s course. This is an under rated step to our the manifestation of our goals, having a clear space to let or manifestation thrive, it is boring but is necessary.

When you engage in everyday tasks you clear your mind to receive your “Aha!” moments, which brings you ever closer to what it is you seek.

Remember that not everything has to be hard-won, passionate, or even obviously meaningful, business goes through lulls when the everyday tasks, house keeping, are preparation for the next phase, it helps us to just be present, in the here and now.

So take small steps, rather than large leaps, move your focus off your big dream (for a short while) and attend to the mundane house keeping tasks. Focus on the little things that may have piled up while you’ve been so busy and stressed you cannot think straight, bring yourself back to reality. Sometimes we devote far too much time to driving ourselves forward, planning, dreaming or even, dare I say it, procrastinating and not enough time doing something, the small, achievable tasks that is the under valued corner stones of our business.

Our big dream becomes reality only after we have begun to take the incremental steps towards it, if you want to be warm in the winter you need to chop the wood you need to be able to do so.