Twelve Square Feet

Have you ever had a task that was so big you did not know where to begin?  In your head you start to think how long it is going to take to get the task completed so you procrastinate.  In other cases you might try to bite off more than you can chew and you give up after you come to the realization that you are not going to get it done in the time you thought.

After a speaking engagement, I was having dinner with some of the attendees. In the course of our conversation, we discussed the challenge of getting large projects completed.  As we continued to talk, one woman shared with me a story about her childhood.  She said her parents had a nice sized back yard which had become overgrown and unsightly.  Her father used to look at it, noticing how it looked, but after a long work week he did not want to have anything to do with cleaning up the yard.  She said that one day her grandmother got the idea that she would take on the project of cleaning up the yard.  What she did was so smart.  She sectioned the yard off in sections 3 feet by 4 feet, a total of twelve square feet.  Each day she would clear and plant twelve square feet at a time until she had finally cleared the back yard.  What was left was a beautifully landscaped yard.

Do you have a project that has been sitting undone because it is so big?  Well you do not have to take on the whole acre, just twelve square feet at a time.