Pack Your s#!+ in a Small Box
Apparently the Marines have a saying… I heard it from an old boss and it has always stuck with me.
”Pack your s#!+ in a small box”
It means you can’t have drama or excess AND get things done. It means -
effeciency is effective.
simple is powerful.
toss your baggage and get to work.
Every 6 months I take everything out of my closet, place it all on my bed, and I do a purge. I get rid of everything except what I absolutely can’t live without.
I purge the stinky leggins. And the shirts that are going out of style. The clothes that haven’t laundered well. Etc.
And here’s what happens next — of a sudden I can find the things I want. It’s like having a totally new wardrobe. MAGICAL.
The state of your physical environment mirrors the INSIDE OF YOUR MIND.
Freeing up space in your closet actually frees up mental white space too, giving you the freedom to do the high level thinking and action-taking required of a business builder. Which is why the purge is so important.
IT’S TRUE IN BUSINESS TOO.
I know you are out there following ALL the marketing ’guru’s and studying the influencers. You are onboarding all the “should“ because — well hey they’ve done it, so they know, right?
That causes you to accumulate “should’s” and stash them in the back of your mind, or compile them into physical weekly to-do lists. Collecting them up like they are on clearance at Lululemon.
And it seems like this magical plan — the list that started it all… the road to a million bucks.
Until it becomes unmanageable. And we miss a day. And we stop. Or we never start.
Which is embarrassing.
And humiliating.
The truth is it was set up for failure from the beginning.
Gurus and influencers can tell you about tactics, but tactics don’t drive the ship forward. TRUTH : simplicity scales.
