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I stopped by Home Depot recently and picked up a couple of boards to use in building a second square foot garden. They were 8 feet long. Being kind of wimpy, I struggled to get them into the cart.

I realized that I wasn’t going to be able to get them into my little car like that, so I pushed the cart over to the area where they will cut things up for you.

On the way there, one of the boards started to fall, and it hit me in the shoulder. It really hurt, but I just wrangled the board back into the cart and continued to the saw area. They cut the boards into 4-foot lengths for me and I was on my way.

When I got to the car, I grabbed all of the boards and lifted.

They didn’t budge.

I tried again, and all I succeeded in doing was breaking a nail.

“Duh,” I thought, “put them into the car one at a time.”

Of course, that was easy.

This is a pretty silly story, but it’s indicative of the way many of us try to do things. We have a goal, and we try to do everything at once, even though a part of us knows that it probably won’t work that way. We want to see immediate, quick results — just like I wanted to just plop the boards into the car all at once.

Often, the easiest way to do things is to break things down, and then handle them one piece at a time.

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