Catharsis

I had the pleasure of tidying-up our garage today and it did take me most of the day. We had a much bigger house in the UK and have struggled to fit into this one here and hence the garage is the main repository of our books and furniture plus all the gear you need with children and for the beach. One of the growing issues has been the retention of schoolwork over the years and my eldest did a great job this morning of culling and consolidation and now that she has no science to do anymore (joy of joys) all of that work could go out. My own clear-out and consolidation was electronics-related in that over decades one can accumulate cables, pieces of kit never used, telephone paraphernalia and videoing stuff plus the detritus of all sort of technologies, some of them now totally redundant. It was incredibly cathartic and though I know the concept of de-cluttering is well known and I can add no wisdom to it, it is nonetheless tremendously satisfying when one actually does it. Knowing the theory is one thing, doing it is another. It is a concept that I am determined to bring to my business this year, in terms of supposed clients, supposed contacts and a tendency to say "yes" to all requests for assistance;I am told this is nothing strange in the world of consultancy. Roger Hamilton of Wealth Dynamic talks of either multiplying or magnifying one's business and having spent 2009 multiplying mine I am going to spend 2010 magnifying it. Doing a better and fuller job for less clients and helping grow their business more; forgetting about growing mine and never forgetting to grow theirs. Again this is going to be a challenge and I'd invite "followers" to keep me up to the mark. Time for dinner, more soon. Cheers, Jonathan.