Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Confronted with a big mess? What do you fix first? What order? Try this suggestion.

I once entered a job where everything was a mess. Chaos? Well, I won’t write that chaos reigned as that implies there was some order someplace. I found none.

It was a mess, where to start? I started with what I was touching at the moment. Something popped up, I fixed it. Then I improved what was connected to it.

There, it was better than I found it. What do I do next? What I do next, that’s what. Pretty soon I had time to go looking for something to fix.

Simple? Yes. Works? Yes. Easy? No. It is much easier to be frustrated. It is much easier to be paralyzed. It is much easier to be demoralized.

Just improve the one thing you are touching right now. Later, do the same.