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049 Considering wisdom
A weekly newsletter from BobBarnardnm.com
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Please share this with your friends so we can encourage others to consider wisdom.
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Thoughts on the intersection of Society/Culture, Productivity/You, and Wisdom/Knowledge.
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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. Benjamin Franklin
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My WEEK
Busy as always but uneventful until Saturday night. I went to Roswell, NM, for a conference, and things got interesting. Saturday night, I tripped and landed on a curb face-first. As you would expect, the ground and curb won. I went to the ER, and after a CT scan found out I had a slight break in my nose but no concussion. I’m healing quickly, but I look a little like a raccoon right now.
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Considering Wisdom.
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Be satisfied with even the smallest progress and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant. Marcus Aurelius
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Do you become frustrated by how slowly it takes some things to get done? I do! We are so focused on the end goal, solving the problem, or becoming something that we forget it isn't a one-step process. It takes a lot of little steps to reach a goal or accomplish something important, and we forget this. This is what Marcus Aurelius is pointing out in his quote above. We need to focus and be satisfied with the progress we are making. Rejoice in each step forward. Don't wait until the end is reached.
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If you focus on each step and gain satisfaction in your accomplishment, you will be somewhat surprised when you reach the goal. However, if we continuously concentrate only on the outcome, we will add stress to our lives and may never reach our desired goal because we slow ourselves down and get frustrated with our lack of progress. Therefore, Marcus Aurelius tells us to change our focus; progress matters each day, not whether we have reached our goal.
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So, to change your focus to progress, break your goal into bite-sized steps and rejoice each time you progress by completing one. So many of society's problems today are large and complex but can be solved by taking continuous small steps.
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1. What big problems can you help solve by taking a small step?
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2. What problems do you have that you want to solve?
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3. What is the next step that will move you closer to the solution?
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1. For one of the next steps you have identified, work on it, and when it is done, identify a new next step.
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2. For each of your problems, identify the next few steps you want to take.
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3. Reflect on what you have accomplished.
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