The other day I read a short article called “The Fifteen-Weed Formula“. The basic idea of the story is that there was a lady who suffered from multiple sclerosis which made it difficult to do physically demanding tasks. One day she noticed a whole bunch of weeds in her back yard and noted that she really wanted to pull them out but it would take her weeks to recover from the physical activity. She decided that she would limit herself to only pulling fifteen weeds a day no matter how good or bad she felt that day. By the end of the summer she had pulled the weeds twice because they had started growing back in. She had accomplished her goal of weeding the yard.
Often times we have good and bad days in life. If we set simple goals that allow us to do just a portion of our tasks that we would like to get done we will eventually get everything done. This is a great lesson that we should all take to heart. Don’t overwork ourselves when we get excited for a new goal, take it slow, and spend just a bit of time on each task, and soon you will realize you got a ton of stuff finished.
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