“There must be another way..!”

After last night’s snow fall we had 9” of snow in our drive.  It slopes uphill to a narrow, ungritted lane, and had to be cleared if we were going to have any chance of getting out any time in the next 5 days.  So my family and I were out shovelling snow  but it was quite damp and stuck to the shovel even when inverted, this made it much harder to shift.  After a while my son said “There must be an easier way!”  This is a very important statement as it is so often the trigger for change, indeed, until someone says this, nothing will change.

So I had a think and came back with a board about 5’x2’ and we used it as a snow plough… much easier and we were clearing vastly more snow in half the time… 

So if you are confronted with a situation where you feel that what you are doing isn’t really working…. ask yourself “Isn’t there something different I can do?”

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”   Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

 

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