Coke Swatika - a powerful symbol
Then I look at the little leather chest on my window sill, its lid deliberately left open, and I reach into it and pull out a random‘target’. It says ‘Complete Distributor Pack’, so I set it down on the table in front of me and I get to work. The strip of paper on which these words are written will sit on my desk until the task that it describes has been completed and the rules of the game are that my contribution to any task drawn from the chest must be completed in a day.
There are about a dozen strips of paper in that chest and every time I think of something that I need to do, which can be parceled into a discreet task, I write it down on a strip of paper and I put it in the chest. My family knows that if there is a single piece of paper in this chest then the lid must be left open and I suspect that it will be many years before I finally close it.
The chest has become the symbol of the inner energy that I need to summon in order that I may do the things that are beyond my normal work boundaries. I used to go to work full of ideas for what I would do and the great things I could achieve. Then, on the train home, I would plan how I would do them in the evening. I would get home, eat supper, watch TV and go to bed. In the morning, I would wake up and the cycle of inaction would begin again.
For years I fooled myself into thinking that what I lacked was time. I didn’t lack time, I had the evening that I had planned to do my work in, I just didn’t use it. What I really lacked was energy. Sometimes, in order to find our inner energy to do that little bit extra, the little thing that we have planned to do for so long but which has always eluded us, we need something to remind us of its purpose and value. The little leather chest on the window sill in my study is my symbol, and because I have found it so effective I thought I should share its existence with you. If you find that you don’t have time, when the reality is that you don’t have the energy to find the time, then perhaps you should look around you and find a symbol that can help.
