I learned today that last month was the Harvest Moon -- the time of reaping and celebrating what you have accomplished during the year. The moon we are entering is the Culling Moon.
If the Harvest Moon is when you gather your basket of apples for the winter, the Culling Moon is when you go through and get rid of the one or two rotten ones. Left untended, they would spoil the whole batch. But culled now, your bounty will keep.
I can think of a few things I'd like to cull.
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Time to cull at the office, I'd like to say that out loud and at the office, but....
This post of culling tied many threads together for me, both in your blog and things I've been working on. I associate culling with ruthlessness, as in predators culling elk and deer or ranchers culling a herd.
In thinking about it more the last couple days, I realize it is generally the ruthless process which works for me. After five years of trying, I quit a heavy chewing tobacco habit of twenty years. I couldn't taper off, I had to go cold turkey. It's an oft repeated pattern for me. I need to find a way to fully commit to get things done.
There are a number of things which need culling in my life, most of all posessions. I keep getting little bits done, but I need to expand my ruthlessness. Get more done faster so I can see progress, that's the ticket for me. I would still like to fit my belongings into my truck and a medium sized trailer, not much bigger than the truck. And, I don't mean a scientific packing job, but one I could do in a day which I imagine would require culling another 20%.
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