Digging Holes and Building Cathedrals

After the Great Fire of London a writer of the day was walking over London Bridge towards a scene of devastation and saw two individuals a few feet apart busy with spades. He approached the first and asked what he was doing. “I’m digging a bloody hole!” said the worker with some irritation. Still curious the gentleman asked the second toiling man what he was doing. After a small pause the second chap said “… I am building a cathedral!”

Sometimes building a business makes me feel a bit like I am the first worker. With my back bent over some of the problems and challenges of the day it feels like I am just digging a hole. But on other days everything comes together. I feel inspired, part of the great plan is coming to fruition and it really does feel like we are building something very special.

Byotrol quite often has a monumental feel about it, just the other day we had a “Cathedral” moment. We heard that in a simple study (in a quite disadvantaged and under resourced medical clinic) in the Sudan the use of Byotrol on the maternity wards and in the air conditioners has helped to significantly reduce patient mortality rates. To say this made the whole team feel good is an understatement (as big as saying Jenson Button was satisfied when he was crowned Grand Prix Champion of the world!)

To be told that something you have worked on and been passionate about has contributed to saving a single life young or old is a fantastic thing. Just knowing that somewhere, someone you may very well never meet will live their life and get the chance to see all the great buildings of the world, because of a technology we have developed to combat the germs that cause disease and infection, makes all the days of digging holes fantastically worthwhile!

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Tags: Byotrol, Hygiene Revolution, Residual Antimicrobial Technology, Stephen Falder