When you hear that the older you become the more you declutter and the more you drop many things that once gave you sleepless nights.

I don’t know what that means to you.

For me I have found real joy decluttering – for instances from clothes, I don’t like having more than 5 trousers.

Same story to other types of clothes

What i have seen this do, however ‘’insignificant’’ – is reclaim huge peace of mind.

The nature of our work is not structured. Mainly logistic part. Today you are reporting to this client, tomorrow onother one. Within one week you report to like Three different clients.

First, your communication thought process keeps varying dealing with different decision makers and owners.

Secondly your transport pattern and timing requires you become better and better in pre-planning. Otherwise you are consultant of business excellence that keeps on showing wrong example of reporting late.

My few clothes makes me better on morning routine of dressing up. Saves me time for morning reading & learning

I love it. Have seen huge reward from time value I have created including priceless peace of mind.

I must admit, I am glad for the opportunity. Not many people has such opportunity of growing every day through expansion of their limits.

It therefore comes down to ability to make your personal and micro life very efficient.

Decluttering on items of what I need to wear has been one handy gift to myself.

How many things you chase and pay for and they only come to add costly load to your system

We keep telling ourself we need this or that merely by just seeing it and not because you really know it.

The gap of doing things from admiration of seeing and not knowledge of value it will add is very huge for many people

When you get it, we sometimes go further to blame something else when that thing don’t work

But that’s not it.

Elon Musk- richest man on earth as at November 15, 2025 has been seen beside a very simple structure in form of his home in midst of nowhere.

That start sending huge loaded message of why he is richest and as we know it it’s from doing things that are not easy.

Seems it’s much better when you are lighter and lighter.

Your premium brain get decluttered and no distractions to pick deep thoughts that later drive innovations

We keep blaming other things more and more when the ones we are holding don’t work and are just loads and loads.

When your value stream is defined by what your eyes admires and not what your thought process have designed, then you are living life driven by wrong blurred focus.

You live to make other peoples happy and not yourself.

When their eyes see that thing with you, their eyes will glow while you are straining with the weight of the load.

You defer what really matters.

Simple quadrant to trace your 20/80

You are doing everything expecting you will win

You expect huge win and bang from overwhelming and draining busyness.

Try understand simple way to identify your focus with below quadrant

Simple instructions

We read graph from x-axis to y-axis

Simple way to arrive at your 20/80

The only job left for you is studying closely 2 elements-

1.  Things you do

When you trace your compass to do things based on refining your thinking abilities and not your eyes admiration, your real job that creates adrenaline starts.

Asking what are the things that are important to you.

You get chance to evaluate one by one, trying them out in real life and keep refining them.

Bottom line, you seem like a snail making almost no move, but that small thing you move create exponential change

2. The way you do things

When you identify the few things to do, embark on learning and understanding best way of doing them.

When you do that, something will click in

If you still don’t know, you find more chances to learn and learn

This unlocks your level 2 thirstiness

Eyes admiration no longer lead you as authority

World of peace start taking better shape as you continue to perfect chosing right things.

Personally I have found myself abandoning a whole action plan for lack of best bet of activities that goes with the plan. Understanding my thinking process have continued to shift from tray full of activities to strategic activities and executions.

Been following this formular 10 months now - year 2025.

I think this emanated from good effort I invested in learning to understand mind and actions during last quarter of year 2024

This is why many Small, Micro & Medium businesses have failed to build growth pillars

There are some 10 relevant pillars I train small businesses to start thinking on how to build them over time. Here

Otherwise business will never grow.

One painful realization that has not downed in mind of many, small business will never help you. Over 15 years doing same thing and then even your children can never have anything to pick up from. You retire frustrated and worn out person after many years of donkey work

It’s a reality that is happening.

In the next issue of this newsletter we will talk about those Ten pillars in their simple form.

The 3, limiting decision rules

1. Not deferring forest of many activities

Businesses are driven by activities. Write out everything you do as owner and decision maker of the business. I am talking about everything and realise how much you are stuck in mere activities and busyness

2. Not asking yourself uncomfortable questions

Last two weeks I had a one hour discussion with an owner of butchery. After his elaborate and too much information from him, he couldn’t agree to answer just one question I placed on him. Why don’t you allocate yourself a salary from your business and let other business money grow the business ?

I felt wasted.

3. Refusing to build decision framework

It feels very egocentric when everyone in the business has to call you to give direction. Every business decision has to be filtered through yourself just because you are the owner – ‘’boss’’.

However this is curtailing more and more improvement in quality decision making and kills timely decisions.

It means many decisions depends on what you are feeling that day and not on basis of any framework that guarantees consistency.

Bottom line

My simple cloth line is giving me more and more peace.

Now seeking more and more areas to declutter. I can’t wait what this will achieve me in another one year.

But the real win I want you to understand is building that curiosity about your system. How much you can achieve when you discover the real 20% concentration that will obsess you.

Let me ask you something – how many things do you keep holding, adding and they only help to make you more and more bulky to decide, act and improve

Looking forward to next issue we discuss about pillars for growth.

Thank you and see you

Let’s say: Without decluttering through and shifting from identifying good things through eyes to well crafted thought process. Without cancelling limiting decision rules. Without identifying the few 20%. Your future in your business will never be safe.

Gachoka

 Ps

I am Gachoka Kang’ata (GK) very passionate about entrepreneurship. My mission- Sharing for Growth. Over 5,000 reading this newsletter monthly.

MD at Cygnus Consulting – working with mid-sized businesses on Continuous Improvement (CI) Designs – Operations Improvement & Excellence. So far, Cygnus pride having worked with over 50 Owners and decision makers. See more: www.cygnus.co.ke

Founder & dedicated coach of micro & small enterprises for growth. Looking forward to impact over 1000 small business in 5 years. See more www.poweringhouse.com

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