Saturday, December 12, 2009

jack of all trades...

master of none...

If, as an American, you have ever struggled with indecision, this may resonate with you. Especially if you are fascinated with the number of available options you have. Breakfast, eating at a restaurant, grocery shopping, buying a car, picking a major, choosing a doctor's office. Should we read up on natural medicine? Western medicine seems to have its flaws. Now Barnes and Noble is not helping me with decisiveness.

So, if we don't address the critical issue, we are going to spend our allotted 168 hours each week barely hanging on. Running in between our hundreds of friends on facebook, not really knowing what the term 'friend' even means anymore. Worrying our lives away, wondering what job we could have, and never enjoying the people in the room or the task at hand.

I want to pick my top shelf of priorities better in light of the trajectory of building something with these 168 hour bricks, rather than running around plugging up holes in broken walls that really need someone completely dedicated to a demolition and rebuild.

A friend once said we overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we accomplish in ten.... and this rings true.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What?! B&N can't help with that? I just walked passed there self help section today (or maybe yesterday, but I haven't fallen asleep yet).

Any one or two priorities on you mind that need to be "top shelf you know" (to quote my boy T.I.)?

Anonymous said...

Also, you need to take me to some of your favorite Asian restaurants.

benny and the jets said...

lets do it! top priorities...? reading getting things done. then i will know how do this much better,which would include-spending time with God, roomates, people in small group, coworkers, neighbors etc. this is still in the works. it would increase my joy to enjoy some pho with you.