I’m about to call you to wish you a happy Father’s day. I talked to you just a few days ago – it was your birthday – so I won’t have a lot to say on this call. I will have a lot that I could say. I probably won’t say all of the things that I’ve been thinking.
Monthly Archives: June 2012
140 Characters Of My Life That I’ll Never Get Back
I stopped following you today. You probably didn’t notice.
Nothing personal. It’s just life.
Why? As I said — life. An amazing thing happens when you get over-committed as I have in recent months. You finally make real decisions on priorities. When you have too much to do, you do what’s most important — what will cause you pain if it’s not done. The metaphor I use is juggling. You can juggle one ball, two and even, if you practice – three. I guess it’s possible that if you really work at it, you could juggle four. Maybe there is a Zen juggler who could do five things. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter, each of us has a limit, no matter how much we want to focus, practice or will it to be different.
So if you can juggle four and life gives you five — guess what? No matter what happens you are going to drop one. So what do you do? You pick. How? Well, like most people, I presume that you try not to drop the thing that is most likely to break. You try to make the drop as painless as you can.
We all do this every day. More and more we are like the juggler trying to take on more things that we can truly juggle. And what do we do? We drop something. What do we drop? The thing that will hurt us the least.
Unfortunately, that thing was – you.
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