I’ve expanded
the vegetable garden
this year.
I suspect I’ll expand
the vegetable garden
next year.
Why didn’t I expand it
more
this year?
Wouldn’t that be
more resource efficient?
I didn’t expand it
more
because it is MUCH easier
with gardening,
with business,
with almost every project
to start small
and then expand
than it is
to start large
and then reduce.
We’ve all been overwhelmed
by a project
that is much too large
for us and our team
to handle successfully.
That is soul
and team crushing.
It is stressful.
It usually ends
in failure.
But we often don’t know
how large a project
is too large for us.
The best way
to discover that
is by slowing increasing
the size of projects.
We can usually sense
when the size is
approaching our team’s limit.
And if we don’t
sense that,
we can often reduce
our little bit too large project
by…that little bit.
Start small.
Then expand.