Growing Your Business

One of the biggest challenges we have in running businesses is thinking about tomorrow because today is where the fires are, but again if you stop and start your day with a planning session you can include taking some time to look at the day ahead, and the week ahead and frankly, the month ahead.

I’ve always loved the story of the old lumberjack who would stop every hour for coffee and the young lumberjack who was trying to out cut him - cut more trees, would just go all day long solid, solid, solid and he discovered that the old lumberjack was out cutting him.

And finally after a couple days of this the young guy asked the old, “What is it I am doing wrong?” And he said, “Well you’re forgetting to stop and sharpen the saw.”