A couple of weekends ago I decided that it was time to cut the large tree trunk in my garden into manageable sized logs to use for fire wood etc. The sun was shining, but it was not too hot. I started the chain saw, who’s noised chased the Lories and other birds into the nearby trees. Whilst cutting through the tree trunk a lazy lizard (as it was not too hot) ran past the chain saw blade. Unfortunately the blade cut off the lizard’s tail. I stopped the chain saw immediately… The poor lizard sat there on the log, it’s little chest pulsating as it tried to catch is breath. Both the lizard and I stood there watching the lizard’s sawn off tail flapping around on the ground. The tail jumped around in the dirt for nearly 5 minutes before it stopped wriggling. By then the lizard had composed itself, gathered its little thoughts, and come up with a new strategy to survive. So off went the lizard up the nearby tree high out of my reach and to camouflage itself once more. Off to live another day. This led me to think about our own actions in life and business. Sometimes, we too confuse activity with achievement. Sometimes we get caught up within the fast pace of life, with little direction, which leads us to be very active and very busy, but we achieve little. Maybe sometimes, we need to be a little less like the lizard’s tail, and more like the lizard. Rather think, plan, slow things down, and go on to achieve what is important to us; instead of rushing about being very active but achieving little.