Put the Door Back on the Track
- boxes of books to donate are piled up
- bags of clothing to donate are taking up floor space
- new furniture sits idly empty until older items are moved out of their spots to make room for the new pieces
- new furniture and design items sit in boxes waiting to be put together.
Ack! This. Is. Driving. Me. Nuts. See, I’m a clean freak. My motto is: a place for everything and everything in it’s place.
But, I had an encounter with one of the workers the other day that immediately made me draw a parallel to my business.
I have “pocket” sliding doors in my bedroom to one of my closets. The door runs on a track and when I was sliding my new recliner into place, I bumped the door and it jumped off track. Dang!!!
I stood there and looked at the door, wondering how I was going to lift the door and get it back on track. That’s when one of the workers came in and asked me if everything was OK.
I told him what happened — and then that made two of us standing there looking at the door hanging there like a derailed boxcar. This went on for some minutes and finally the worker said, “We should call the goundskeeper, because this needs to be replaced. I’ve seen this happen and we’ll have to take the whole thing off and we might even need to replace the tracks. How old are these doors?”
Ok, I already told you the state of my current living space, yes? Do I LOOK like I need a “door project” happening in the midst of all this? (The answer is: NO!) The way he was talking about the door and everything that needed to be done made my mind spiral and all I could think was that I’d be here the same time next year looking at the same mess. Nuh uh. No bueno.
Now, normally I’m very nice to workers, but this day, I was having none of it. I simply looked at him and said, “Five minutes ago, that door was on track and was working. It’s not that big of a deal. Just grab it, slide it back onto the track and it’ll be fine.”
So he did.
And, it was.
When I thought long and hard about the parallels, I saw other “doors” that just needed to be put back on the track – starting today.
What are your “doors”?
How will you get them back on the track?
When will you start?
What type of “worker” do you need to help you?
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