Message of the Day - Building Up Your Home Base

Good Morning,

 

My current read is Thomas Cleary's 'Human Element' (http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781570622052). Thomas Cleary has translated many books on ancient Chinese and Japanese wisdom. One of my first reads back in the 1990's was his translation of Sun Tzu and the Art of War.

 

In the 'Human Element', there are many choice nuggets of wisdom. One of those nuggets which appealed to me was about the merits of strengthening your home base to help you better reach out and operation more effectively outside your home.

 

This bit of wisdom has multiple meanings.

 

First is means literally that by making our home life stable, we can venture outside of home with calm supportive knowledge that we have a loving and caring home waiting for us. On the other hand, if your home life is fractious and chaotic, it will limit your ability to operate outside of the home due to the constant thoughts and attention spent on fixing or even just dealing with home.

 

Another meaning of this is our area of expertise. For example, if your strength is absorbing and employing information, then when you work in those areas, you will do well. As you venture into new areas, like leadership, or training, or other areas, then your success moving into these different areas increases with the level of stability in your home base of skill.

 

Whatever meanings that can be derived from this concept, they will all support the cause of strengthening the home base so that we can move out into new areas with greater certainty and likelihood of success. To strengthen our home base, we need put our attention on making it better. Making our true home better, our main area of skill, or whatever, takes our honest effort to do what is right for our home base and ourselves.

 

If we cannot be honest with ourselves and accept where we are and our part in getting there, we will continue to have a shaky base. A shaky base will cause ripples through everything else we do. Just like building a pile of building blocks. The higher you go, the less stable you are, and that is magnified if you have an unstable base.

 

It all comes down to use being honest with ourselves and helping building a solid core base of operations for whatever we do in life.

 

From there, as we confidently expand outward, the sky is the limit.

 

Enjoy!

 

Sanford Berenberg
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