Take a Walk … Find some Truth!

The world of furniture is pathetic at the moment.  The question is whether it will recover or not.  The answer is OF COURSE, it will.

I’m a student of cycles - in fact, I’m fascinated by them.  I’m really rusty in what I know so here it is in a nutshell.  Everything is a cycle - there are very long cycles - 500 + years, there are business cycles, growth cycles, real estate cycles, planetary cycles, sunspot cycles … you get it.  The other thing hooked into this is the reality of "entropy", which means everything is fighing against the natural decline/decay of things. 

Healthy and proactive people and businesses know this, and reinvent themselves BEFORE they begin their decline.  They follow an "S" curve.  This means they grow, they plateau, and either begin their decline or reinvent themselves and begin a new "S" curve.

Yesterday I took a walk up my street and remembered about cycles and "S"s.  I made a loop.  I "worked hard" at walking up a hill, and I was thinking the entire time that I’ll get to the straight part any minute, in fact that was my goal.  And the straight part was easy … then I went down a steep hill, which was a slight bit of work.  Then, I naturally ended back at the straight part again.  

So I thought, hmm … just like life.  We struggle so to "grow up".  All of the sudden we’ve reached the plateau and walk along at a leisurely pace.  And then decline.  Maybe the deline part is the "fighting of the inevitable" and after that is the acceptance of it, so we just walk along evenly, till the end.

Ok, reality check.  Where am I?  The answer is - it’s all relative to what aspect of my life I’m inspecting.  Health wise, I’m in the first plateau.  Business wise, I’m climbing up the hill.  Age wise, I’m fighting the decline.  The good news is that I just started the decline (at least I’m claiming that to be fact.  The way I see it, I’m half-way to my goal of 110 years old.) 

Where are you?????