Wouldn’t it be nice to have our own personal construction set? Think of the possibilities. Anything we wanted, we could make or create. If our car broke, or there was a plumbing problem we could reach into our construction set and pull out the needed tools to fix the problem.
If we needed something done in our life, or wanted to modify someone in our life, it could be the same process. Reach into our construction set box, pull out some tools and off we go. Fixing, modifying, creating, changing someone around us into someone better for our life.
There is some good news about our construction sets. We all have one. Our construction sets are standard equipment given out when we are born into this world. It is always with us, and it is always in use. From the moment we wake, perhaps even in our sleep, we remove and use tools out of our construction set. We are busy shaping our world into something we feel is more like what we want.
Looking around it is obvious that some people are very good at using the tools in their construction set. Their life appears to be perfect, they have everything anyone could want. At least it looks as if they have everything you and I may want. It seems they are master craftsmen and have used their tools with all the skill and finesse becoming a master craftsman.
When we look at our own lives we see a different picture. Some parts of our life are working pretty well, and some other areas need some major work. It could be in how we manage our resources, perhaps our relationships, or maybe even our time. For some it may seem that we lost our construction set somewhere along the way and most things in our life need fixing.
There is something valuable we may have missed about construction sets in general. All the tools we need to create, change, or modify our world are inside our box of tools. For the most part, we are masters in the use of all the tools we have in our constructions too.
Our live consists of a lifetime of repair, modification, change, level, and rebuild. Our construction sets are complete when we were born, but we are not. We have all the tools we need and we know how to use them, but it takes a lifetime, sometimes longer to create the world we envision.
In the meantime, though, we have all the tools we need to keep working on our masterpiece. All it takes is being true to ourselves, knowing what we really want for our lives, and not letting ourselves be distracted from our future. Sounds simple, and perhaps for some it is, but for the rest of us, there is one important tool in our construction kit that we often overlook.
The tool we overlook the most is checking our progress against our plan. We made a plan sometime in our past, and we get so busy we never stop to check our progress against our plan until it is obvious something went wrong somewhere along the line. The great thing is when we do learn to occasionally check our work against our plan, this tool becomes one of the most important and least overlooked tool in our personal construction kits.
