Posts Tagged ‘rebuilding’

Building on cracked foundations

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

I spent an exhausting day mixing concrete to repair our rather badly eroded and cracked driveway.  I guess time will tell what kind of job we have done but there is little chance it could be any worse than it already was!  It occurred to me that perhaps most of us have to rebuild on cracked and damaged foundations.  Life and business have a way of chipping away at what we build and from time-to-time we have to strip it back to the more solid bits, clean them off and lay down something new on top to build on and go forward from. 

We are all brought up on the myth of perfection and yet reality keeps trying to educate us that little is perfect except (perhaps)  the mess we make sometimes…  Change and business and indeed Life itself requires us to stop from periodically and reassess and then rebuild.  I have had nearly 6 months enforced ‘holiday’ to do just this and in the last few weeks I have slowly begun this process.  Today the drive…. Tomorrow…. the World … (or maybe just my world!)

I wonder what you are either in the process of rebuilding building or in need of rebuilding…

“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”   Henry David Thoreau

“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”    Carl Gustav Jung

Out with the Old

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

We are in the middle of a series of fairly significant changes in our home. We have lived here for around 15 years and it is showing the depredations 3 children, 3 cats and various others, so it is certainly time.  This morning the men arrived to remove the kitchen, but  I wasn’t prepared for what that was going to feel like.  As with many families, the kitchen has always been the heart of our home, and it has just been ripped out!  We can now see 70 years of various old linos and wallpapers, and loads and loads of space.  The room now looks huge.  I know in about a month’s time we will be enjoying something lovely, but in the meantime we are going to be camping in the Utility room and cooking on a single ring. 

Change needs to start off by recognising the need for something new, then clearing out the old stuff and then rebuilding.  Even though this is an external change, and seemingly relatively ‘safe’, yet still it has had an emotional impact.  It is this emotional element of Change that tends to hold us in thrall.  The only way forward is to commit and deal with it, day-by-day.

I wonder if today finds you wavering and wondering if you should make the move or not?  Well, if you don’t try you’ll never know.  You know everything about your current situation and you aren’t happy with it….

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”    Albert Einstein