Here in the US there is a saying that goes that often people can't see the forest for the trees. Perceiving the forest comes easy to me. I'm more apt not to notice the turn of the maple leaf to burgundy, the aspen to gold, its waxen texture and the intricate fractal shape of the leaves.
I often don't see the leaves for the forest.
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been asked to speak on April 26th (evening, in Sunnyvale) on what I've come away with as the spiritual lessons of the tsunami for me.
I am in the mood to talk about this here again now. It may shed some light for others on a similar path. It also sheds some light on why I'm not exactly doing what I thought I'd be right now and what it is I am doing. It's a lot about creativity, stillness, the eternal intertwined with the mundane, and courageously trodding your path into The Forest. And we shall see what else.
I am also in the mood to write prolific shorter pieces as the mood strikes and not concern myself with writing a single cohesive magnum opus. I am not in the mood to find pithy catchy headlines. So these stream of consciousness posts will be titled Leaves 2 or Leaves 5.
They fit together like leaves in a tree, but the wind flits through each separately too.
Interesting Jeff. The situation you drcseibe occurs all too often. The practice of tracking and reporting activities can become so burdensome that the reporting cost exceeds the value of the information derived from the reports. As you know, we worked together to develop a tool for sales people to report on some of their key activities. We made certain that the tool was easy to understand and use, and the reporting took very little time.Think about the case of the photographer above and the pie chart on the right. What Godin suggests is that though all the activities listed may be essential to running the business, even for an entrepreneur, they might be better outsourced so that the photographer could spend more time taking pictures.I'm planning a future blog to discuss some of the material from Timothy Ferriss' best-selling book The Four-Hour Work Week that covers time management and productivity in an entreprenurial environment.
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