On Thursday morning, I was greeted with a very angry photocopy machine.
With each copy, I was faced with a 6 paper jam that backed up throughout the entire machine. After finding the culprit – and very small, crumpled piece of paper – I tried again. Repeat. Repeat again. Repeat again.
On the 6th attempt, I found it. The most minute piece of crumpled paper hidden in the depths of the machine behind multiple doors, drawers, and levers. Alone, it was innocent – just a discarded piece of paper. But, in the corner of this machine, it caused a huge mess that took 30 minutes to solve.
That little piece of paper derailed everything.
The copy machine could simply not function with it there.
However, once identified, found, and removed, it was smooth sailing.
What are the little crumpled pieces of paper that are a barrier to you being your best self? How can you identify, find, and remove them?
Every day, I find that we are more and more like the photocopy machine.