the little things

I'm thinking about the little things today because my plate is full of them. Selling pigs on weekends is a big thing - if I don't deliver, we lose customers and take leaps backward. But all the things I need to do today I could do tomorrow. They're little things in a number of work streams I have going. And as any of you will know, these little things are just as important to the overall success as the big things.

It's that the little things build, so maybe in aggregate they're as important as a large event, but they're more difficult in that they need to be started earlier and kept up. In college, when you have a paper due, you can spend a little amount of time each day working on the research and writing, or, really, you can do it all in a night. So that's the mentality to fight, because all these activities have to happen on distinct days, and require working with people that can be inconsistent, and take a long time to be able to move onto the next step.

The thing that ties the little events to the big ones is that the little things will define what those big moments are. So here my little things are going to different buyers, assessing their demands, and taking that to my current buyers to get better prices. All so my big event of selling pigs this weekend can be more successful.

I think in life too we skip the little things often, it's just easier, but don't realize that 1) they aggregate into big things that we miss, and 2) they lead into the big events of our lives, and if we miss the little things our big events won't be so big.

So I'm working on the little things today, and pushing them on the farm and in our marketing and in the other things I have to do, but then focusing on the little things in life - lifting my friends and family up in prayer, reading scripture every day, being joyful with everyone I meet. So here's to the little things.