FM Walsh & Associates Inc.

A business associate spent a good part of last week with me working on a strategic plan for my company. It was tiring and stressful at times. What I realized is after finishing this exercise is that the challenge in thinking really big is that you can become paralyzed by the sheer size of what you want to do. The enormity of it hits you – rather like standing at base camp on Everest – where and how do you get started? Don’t get me wrong – I am a big fan of thinking as big as possible. What my associate reminded me to do is to take the big picture and chunk it down into manageable steps. That way you get rid of the paralysis and the feeling of overwhelm. The same way you climb Mount Everest – one step at a time.