{"id":36715,"date":"2014-04-14T12:49:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=36715"},"modified":"2014-04-15T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T21:45:20","slug":"a-lesson-in-planning-before-carrying-out-a-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-lesson-in-planning-before-carrying-out-a-project\/","title":{"rendered":"A lesson in planning before carrying out a project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A dear friend passed Saturday (RIP Bryan Tilford<\/a>) making it a contemplative weekend. We’d spoken just the night before.\u00a0 Bryan could always be counted on to be awake working in the wee hours as I was, and we’d often connect and share thoughts.\u00a0 I went into gardening mode, taking my pruning shears into the yard and began topping the turk’s cap. An hour later, cuttings in hand, I went to my mate’s and began creating a garden outside his dining room window.\u00a0 His home gets full sun, so I also brought over a loquat for shade next year.<\/p>\n

I added potting soil and mulch to the limestone fill and stuck in the cuttings and watered them well.\u00a0 I could hear them screaming for nourishment as the water quickly drained. I hadn’t planned well.<\/em>\u00a0 I should have dug the bed first, then added the soil, mulch, peat and black cow and mixed it together before sticking the cuttings in.\u00a0 I did it a day later, and added an aloe plant, four Dahlberg daisies, some ferns and topped it with my own oak leaf mulch.\u00a0 I watered it and saw that the enriched soil was holding the moisture.\u00a0 I should have done that from the beginning<\/em>.\u00a0 I hadn’t stopped to plan, I just let myself get in motion without much forethought. Anytime I do that, I find myself back tracking to do what should have been done right in the first place.\u00a0 Not just in the yard but with work projects and Life in general. Now I strive to stay mindful, to think things through so I don’t have to redo projects I wasted time doing by not planning first. I’m getting better at it all the time.<\/p>\n

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