Last week I wrote about why you should never have more than three projects. And then, yesterday morning, in our Heart of Business Team Meeting (I love writing that, just cause after years of doing this nearly solo, we now have a team!), we nearly did it to ourselves.
So, half-way through the meeting, we killed a big project. Just knocked it off the list.
And then we all breathed a bit more deeply, and sat there looking at each other. Blink. Blink-blink. It was great. The project was actually a juicy project, that could’ve done some very cool things for our business, but it was just too much. Too much for us to take on.
Have you ever heard that trite old saying, “Go slow to go fast”? Well, that’s what we were thinking here. And by going slow, we are now focusing on the most important project we have:
Building Infrastructure.
I know, I know. It’s such an unbelievably sexy, lustful project that we can barely hold ourselves back. I mean, how exhilarating to be discussing what kind of phone system can handle three different people in remote locations, and how to keep our calendars synched? It’s so exciting I just have… to… yawn.
And yet… have you every noticed how satisfying a good yawn can be?
Since we killed that other project, and have focused on just three main ones, actually only two if I count correctly, plus some of the regular day-to-day stuff that keeps happening, I find myself actually becoming productive.
A project I’d been meaning to get to all last week, I finally took several steps on it today. I find myself feeling spacious, at-ease, breathing better.
And I find myself loving my projects.
The Project Soul.
One of the points I made last week was that projects have a soul. A being-ness. Something real to them that is beyond just a list of to-do’s. Because everything comes from Source (where else would it come from) it has to have some sort of a spiritual being-ness to it, and so therefore, your project has a heart. It has a soul.
By having fewer projects, I’m able to cozy up to the few that are left.
How about you? Have you ever experienced the heart or soul of a project? What happens if you take a moment in your heart to connect?
