The Story of the Bird and the Window

Like many of you, I work out of my home office (love it btw) and the strangest thing has been happening the past few months.

I am hunkered down over my keyboard click clacking away and I hear this bumping sound which I can’t quite put my finger on.  There isn’t a word to describe how it sounds (think bird beak on glass) but maybe kinda like shlack, shlack….shlack.

I go back to clacking and pretty soon, there is the shlack, shlack, shlack again and this time it is really close and I see this little bird head, black with a yellow beak, and he is shlacking my office window, trying to fly through the glass for pete’s sake.

He started at the bedroom window, worked his way around the house to the laundry room window, now he’s at my office window – trying to flying through the glass. Lack of success doesn’t stop him. He gets a run at it and tries again at least two or three times.

This has been happening intermittently for at least the last two months. I don’t know if it’s the same bird but you would think after so many fails he would find a new game.

I can relate to this bird in a strange sort of way. Because there are so many times in my life where I have tried to fly through the window over and over again, of course, going nowhere. Sometimes I just change windows. Like the bird.

I read somewhere this is the definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

The beautiful lesson here is that as business owners and wives and husbands and moms and dads and sons and daughters we don’t have to fly into the same window. We can change marketing language, service offers, conversations, boundaries and quality time spent together. We CAN change. Unlike that little bird. Think of the possibilities.

So what windows are you flying into? What can you change to get a better result?

Tell me about it.

[Image Flickr Chefranden]