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Changing The World
One small step at a time.
There are days when all you want to do is sit in a quiet spot with a good book and pretend all is right with the world. And, to be honest, there is nothing wrong with that. I do it all the time.
After all, why should whatever the minions of Trump and Putin are doing set the tone of your day? It’s not like any of us can do anything to get them to stop what they’re doing, since they’re not listening to anything we say about it over coffee or reading what we post online.
Their wars will continue until there is no-one left to fight them or they run out of expensive missiles or diesel, but that doesn’t mean we have to be part of them. We can check out and focus on something else — at least some of the time.
I’m currently reading The Power of Small by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, in which they explain why little things can make all the difference.
Although most of us can’t pull off big things in life, Kaplan Thaler and Koval point out that we can all do small things, and it’s often those small things that make a difference. The Power of Small is full of examples illustrating their main point.
What reading their book got me thinking about was the project management process of chunking — or breaking down a large task into a series of…
