The Rubik's Cube Metaphor

So when I was in high school I learned to solve the Rubik's Cube. 
I'm a problem solver at heart, and I took to heart the lesson solving it taught me.

There are steps to solving it.  It can't all be done at once.

To begin with you pick a side to work with - pick a place to start - to orient yourself from.  No one side is really any better than any other, but you pick one and start with that as your "top."

First you fill in the center pieces - forming a "cross" or a "plus sign" on that "top" face. Additionally you need to connect that to the sides so make sure that the sides of your "plus sign" match the center pieces of the other sides.

It's probably of interest to note that I usually started with white as my starting face/top (white belt... hmmmm...)

Now for the corners. 

Row 1 is complete YAY!

Most people stop here because they are unwilling to mess up Row 1 in order to get Row 2

BUT...

You can't get any further without being willing to disturb/disrupt what you already have in place.

Let me say that again.

You can't get any further without being willing to disturb/disrupt what you already have in place.

Things really aren't messed up or out of place or lost - they just seem that way while you are moving the new piece into place.

And this process continues to be the case as you put more and more of the pieces in their proper places.

At each step in order to get to the next you have to disrupt what you already have to get to the next step.  Notice that I said disrupt - not destroy - not redo - just temporarily displace...

RIGHT before the final twists and turns that put the last pieces into place - it looks almost as messed up as it did when you first started - but then BOOM!  It all fits.

There is a difference between...
just randomly turning the sides of the cube hoping that it will all somehow work out
and...
methodically working a plan that involves disrupting what has gone before in order to free up the possibility for greater success.

Respectfully,
Kathy Wiz

P.S. 
I did not figure out how to solve the Rubik's cube on my own.  Someone taught me how.  The first person I asked just pulled the stickers off and rearranged them, another person could do it, but didn't know how to teach me.  It took a while and help from a number of different people... and persistence and practice on my part.

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From Wikipedia...
Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year. As of January 2009, 350 million cubes had been sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy.