Tolerate Nothing

The phone chord that is twisted, you know, the one that every time you pick up a call, pulls the rest of the phone towards you.  It's annoying.

"I must untwist that in a minute."

End of call.  Replace handset.

Another call, and the annoyance repeats.

I have a desk drawer that has too much stuff in it.  You may have a process in your charity that isn't elegant. Every time you process a payment or fill in a form or complete a report with boxes that are wrongly formatted you get annoyed.

But you and I tolerate this.  And every time we do, it takes away a little more of our energy and creates more of a resistance to doing the work.  This energy drain matters and it builds up over time.

Imagine that thing you are tolerating not being there any more. Imagine doing that task without the resistance.  Imagine being able to apply that extra energy that was not used up in tolerating to make the next task just that little more exciting, fun or wow!