How to walk toward the big goal
Oh, hi friends!
Boy oh boy! What a week! We are moving to the Upper West Side tomorrow and moving has reminded me a lot about project management.
There’s one big goal: moving to a new apartment.
But it can be unraveled into a bunch of interlocking goals: finding a new apartment, getting movers, going through stuff you haven’t touched in five years.
And those goals are tied to dozens of little tasks: researching, sorting, fixing, buying boxes, etc.
And with those tasks comes even more little tasks: posting items on Craigslist and responding to people, figuring out what to do with four jars of change you’ve collected because asking movers to haul buckets of pennies doesn’t make any sense (cents??!), etc.
But like with all projects, each task can be broken down into a series of steps. Each step has a beginning and end. The best part? You get to move through them and see your progress. Do it and it's done.
All that’s to say, whether you’re in the big-goal dreaming phase or the nitty-gritty task phase — it all ladders up to the same purpose.
You are going somewhere. And you are taking the steps to get there.
“Simplify, simplify, simplify!…Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.”
— Henry David Thoreau
(h/t Charlotte Maiorana)
Sounds so easy! And yet, maybe it’s not as complicated as we sometimes make it out to be?
Where can you simplify your life and routine today?
HELLO, BABY GORILLA. WELCOME.
Thank you for making 2020 a little brighter!!! Your eyes contain multitudes!
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Love, Kara