Peter Drucker - "The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
I heard I pretty good talk today about the upcoming new year. Apart from the usual babble about resolutions (or, "goals" for you p.c. types), I thought the speaker did a great job of re-emphasizing the importance of paying attention during our waking hours and not giving in to the overwhelming influence of popular culture: to numb ourselves with entertainment and distraction.
I don't want to set a bunch of silly benchmarks for myself; I want to simply keep growing and learning. Stagnation is my worst fear. It usually leads to depression and/or angst. I don't know what my future holds. I have a pretty strong intuition that it will different, and I like surprises . . .
C.S. Lewis - Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
P.S. Process, process, process, Ben. Patience!
How rivers change their path
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The other day, we took the kids to the bookstore to pick up a shiny new
book. The girls picked books out with no problem (other than maybe having
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11 years ago
2 comments:
I think the biggest flaw with the New Year's goals is that they normally don't come anywhere near reflecting where we actually want to be at the end of the year. I change my mind every few days on a lot of things. I'm working on a few monthly goals. I figure that will give me a big enough time window to show some sort of commitment (a problem I sometimes have) but short enough to let me pick up new interests and prioritize them frequently.
Well said, Mike!
Ben
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