This quote from founder, president and CEO of Lifedesigns Gail Blanke’s interview with Smartblog on Leadership captured my attention:
As entrepreneurs, we have to stay agile and light on our feet. Periodically, we need to throw out the old view of ourselves and our companies, the way we always did it — and reinvent. Refining our brands is a constant imperative. And clutter blurs clarity. That means we have to let go of anything that drags us back to some old idea of ourselves or our companies.
It strikes me that this applies to life as well. I tend to devote at least part of Labor Day weekend to cleaning and purging all the clutter that has built up in my apartment while I was in vacation mode. My ingrained academic calendar tells me that September is time for new beginnings. The crisp autumn air holds possibilities for new beginnings, refreshing ongoing projects and moving forward. What stays? What goes? What serves me? The proper Bostonian Director of a Day Care Center I worked at for many years constantly reminded us to not “throw out the baby with the bahth water.” I will keep this in mid as I treat the baby that is my business to fresh water and maybe even a new tub.
