Kurma

It's cricket season here in Australia (yawn).

You may have gathered that I am not a sports fan. Seems like I'm not the only one; I couldn't resist sharing this quote with you:

“The English are not a spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.”
- George Bernard Shaw

I can count the time in hours until the removalists arrive to whisk my earthly possessions away to Sydney.

A major interstate house move is an awesome event. Packing boxes, tackling and culling years of paper work, sorting through cupboard fulls of kitchen equipment, a 'to-do' list that resembles a Microsoft manual, cleaning the house - how does one attempt to tackle all this?

Plutarch said: "The first step towards victory is to gain courage."

I have devised a system. After courageously deciding to march to the front line and meet the enemy full-on, I commence. It's all a bit like war; subjugation, then dividing, and finally conquering.

As far as packing, I don't just mistakenly pile everything into boxes, willy-nilly. Rather I go through each cupboard, every shelf, every drawer, every room, and pack items carefully as they are grouped in my present house, and label the boxes clearly. Then I write a full inventory.

Breaking down huge tasks into 'bite-sized' ones has always been my rule-of-thumb in everything I do. It really works. I enjoy it.

Tasks that appear impossible - like writing a 300-page book, planning a world teaching tour, cooking a feast for 500, or moving house - are quite possible if efficiently and methodically divided into parts and sub-parts, step-by-step.

Today, changing house; tomorrow, changing body.

"Do not scorn little victories." - Andre Gide (1869-1951)