Good day everyone, the topic for today came to me as I was going through some Boy Scout stuff in the garage yesterday (my son is a 13-year old First Class Scout working towards his Eagle hopefully in 3 years…

There are always opportunities for good ideas to be brought to life. But they won’t bring themselves to life, they need a fire starter. 

Someone to carefully set up the little pile of kindling and a tinder nest to catch a spark.  

And then the fire starter need to create a spark to ignite the tinder nest, and then to control the addition of the kindling to the fire, all the while blowing gently to give oxygen to the fire. 

Progressively the fire– or business- gets bigger and can take bigger pieces of wood less frequently, and it can get its own oxygen.  It has taken on “a life of its own” but it still needs a little help.

Eventually, you just need to come around once in a while and add some big logs…

The rest of the time you can be working on other things and other fires. 

Each individual project within a business can be looked at like a fire and…

Unless you go through each and every one of these nurturing steps for your projects, you will be left with a bunch of useless piles of kindling strewn about.   Or a bunch of once-roaring fires that were abandoned and are now smoldering ashes…

Tinder Nest

Kindling Ready

Spark

Add Kindling

Give Oxygen

Progress to Larger Fuel

Add Occasional Logs

Hope this metaphor helps you get your next project off to a successful “life”…

Rob