Sounds stupid but it is a valid statement, sweeping the floors is a good way for me to center myself. It gives me time to think about what I want to get done and what has to be done, today. Tomorrow is not here yet. In my last career I was in real-estate , rentals, both com and res, New construction , and development . Mostly running companies day to day . Before that I was building, remodeling, and TI, before that , the trades, I think as those decades as as all one career.
One the First tools that you are handed is a broom, and it must be mastered before you are ever allowed to strap on a tool belt. Yes there is a right and wrong way to sweep. If you can sweep a work zone and then sweep it again and get a pile that is less than 1/10 the volume of you first sweep then you are doing it right.
Anyway..... I learned through out the decades that by sweeping the you can see alot of the finer details of the job and find small errors that can magnify later on done the road if they are not addressed , think of it as quality control on a macro level. While sweeping I would find myself collecting my thought and getting mentally set for the day. One of my friends is retired army. He now works in the defense business, on the civilian side with the troops as his clients. One of the things that he does when ever he come to the shop to work, we have an unpaid intern program here at the shop, is sweep. I have never asked him to do this, he just does it. When I asked him about it he told me "I need to sweep the floors in my mind" I simply nodded and walked away, understanding completely
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