A fox and a hen and a bag of corn

On getting more done by doing less

From the fall into the winter into the early spring, there have been stretches of time in the last year that have bled into each other. We’ve been jostled back and forth between making headway on the store when we have money, to grinding to a halt when we do not.

To create more times when we have money, I’ve undertaken a steady rhythm of checking in with potential or existing clients about potential or existing work, following up on invoices, doing math in my head as I fall asleep, and making my way through paperwork and processes as finances and capacity have allowed. All while trying to figure out the simplest way to get the the commercial space as open as possible as quickly as possible.

Do you know that logic puzzle with the fox and the hen and the bag of corn? It’s a trope I invoke pretty often in my life when I can’t figure out what order to do things in. And — now that a lot of the bureaucratic tasks are sorted out — it’s what it has felt like trying to tackle the renovations o…