Your Business Needs to Learn from “Snow”.
Snow. We've got some snow in North Carolina!
We moved to the Carolinas almost 10 years ago from Canada, the land of wilderness, trees, fisheries and snow. When we moved south, we gave away our snowsuits, shovels and winter boots. We were done with it. We moved to the land of sun!
Then, about 2 months after we moved here, we got a bunch of snow. Just like we did this weekend. About 10 inches to be exact.
But unlike Canada, this amount of snow shuts the place down. TV news programming forgets about all other news to scare us with the fact it's going to snow. Then when it finally does, they forget the news again to talk about the horrible snow....
Lists.
I recently went through a box of personal keepsakes. You know, those things you've put away in a box because you don't want to throw them away, yet you also don't know what to do with them.
I'm organizing and building a room in our basement, so I need to dwindle the clutter down. I opened box after box and realized that many things that I thought I needed to keep were worthless this time through. I ended up throwing a lot of it away. This actually made me as happy as my wife who has moved the boxes around more times than I have.
Then I opened a box I hadn't had open for about a dozen years. It had memories...