These past few days (weeks), I’ve been packing and sorting all my “stuff” in prep for the big move. Yesterday, hubby and I finally starting filling the POD and boy was that an adventure!
I came to realize how this whole moving process gives lessons in doing well in your “day job” or running a business.
1. Taking shortcuts is not an option – Sometimes I’m a “that’s good enough” person. When it comes to packing the POD, that’s not an option. You pack something “just good enough” and things will get destroyed. Same in business. Many try to take shortcuts in their jobs and their projects fall apart. Unfortunately, you just may not see the effects for awhile. Just like I won’t see if anything is damaged in the POD for at least two months. Luckily, my husband is more of a perfectionist.
The boxes are ready to go!
2. You must work together to accomplish the task – one of us can’t pack the POD alone. It takes both of us thinking and strategizing how our things will stack in the POD. At work, I’m sometimes a loner, but there are tasks, like the Hunt.Fish.Feed events I do, where I absolutely can’t do it without my co-workers. My two best co-workers, Molly and Lisa, are with me at almost every event and they will see things sometimes I won’t see. It may be a better way to set up the chopping stations, or a better way to prep the food. Which leads me to…
3. Be open to suggestions/other ideas – Your way may not be the best way. And this probably where I struggled the most with packing. My hubby and I each had our own ideas of how to pack the POD. But did we communicate them? Not really….
4. COMMUNICATION!!! – When carrying large objects i.e. a couch, we each knew how we wanted the couch to fit through a door opening, but we didn’t necessarily share that….I was just as bad at this as my husband. Like I expected him to read my mind that I was going to put the couch down HERE. And he still wanted to carry it another 10 feet.
5. Visualizing a postive outcome - packing the POD means visualizing exactly what pieces go where and how things will stack. I strongly believe in visualizing the outcome of any task – be it at work, in sports, or in life. In your head, you need to positively think about the outcome and how you want to get there. In packing the POD, we knew we wanted X amount of boxes per POD, and we have X amount of large objects that must fit around the boxes, somehow.
These are just “life lessons” you do everyday, but probably don’t even think about it!