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	Saturday, April 02, 2005

Breaking it to Pieces ( on business) I got off the car and stretched. It has been a long drive.  In one day, we drove over 300 kilometers to visit a place and back.  I felt really bushed. Now, I do drive some. Probably over 1,500 kilometers a month. But it was more like a series of 6 to 8 short trips a day every day. Not in one stretch.  And  I started to think that driving so much, and never feeling so tired as driving that one stretch of 300 kilometers in one day was really because the task was broken into smaller pieces. And probably that is what accomplishing something is about -- break it into a series of steps. I never knew I talked over 18 hours on the cell phone a month until I reviewed my phone statistics.  It is amazing how a minute here and there can add up to so many hours. Consider a housewife.  How would she be daunted if looking forward, she had to wash 36,000 plates?  But if indeed, she washes 6 or 7 plates per meal, that would indeed be the number she would be washing in five years. Looking back it is amazing how much I have been able to accomplish a big task or project by breaking it into manageable tasks.  I graduated MBA while managing 5 companies by simply reading a chapter a week using a few minutes each day. And that is what I am doing to catch up with my reading.  And my writing ( by blogging regularly). I am trying to learn Japanese by reviewing some words in the morning at breakfast, and going over some words before going to sleep. We can never hope for the time or the resources to accomplish big things.  But going at it regularly on a disciplined manner might just do it. A faucet drip may add up to 15 galloons a day, or 5,400 gallons a year. Have big ambitions, but don't know where to start?   Start small. But keep at it!   4:02:55 PM     comment []   trackback []