A trip through Purgatory can take time according to the experts and it’s an idea to prepare.  I’ve brought together a number of strategies that will allow you to navigate your way without too much difficulty.  And…BONUS, help grow your business at the same time!

1.  Research

2.  Network

3.  Have a clear vision

4. Be adaptable

Consider Purgatory. I don’t know how seriously to take it seeing as I’m not Catholic. That said, not even the Catholics know how to take it, having canceled it as a doctrine on quite a number of occasions. Still, it has its appeal as a place, a location in which unfinished business might be attended to. Loose ends tied up. A deal finalized. Conclusions reached. Amends made.

If I check around, I find little to suggest that Purgatory is a place. Rather and disappointingly, it’s most often defined as a process. Happily, Dante is inclusionary in his approach. Describes it as a place. A place of beauty and colour. An island, in fact. And, as a process. Of suffering, but only as a matter of course. It goes without saying that attending to unfinished business involves a certain amount of suffering. Suffering with an end in sight. Hope in the air.

I suspect I’m in a Purgatory of sorts. The task, tidying up the loose ends of this project. In time, the cold season. Place, mine. No Virgil or Beatrice here. Just my dog and a two-bar phrase of low incessant humming. One two three (on D) four one two three four (on C). My partner hates it when I hum. Says it indicates unfinished business. Maybe. Probably. Do you suppose this business of unfinished business ever ends?