Choice, Vision, and Mission, Part 1
Cats are the coolest thing in the world. I sat here for a bit trying to figure out what to write, and Ollie showed up and flopped down on my shoulder and is watching my screen as I write this. It's always when you most need a friend that a cat shows up and reminds you that you're loved. Ollie is really good at that tactic, coming and loving me when I need a friend. Chip is more..... demanding, for him it's more about what he needs than what I need.
On a different topic, I would like to share some thoughts about choice today. The temptation is always to put the blame for things externally without taking responsibility for our choices. For example, people will be upset that they cannot find someone special, but they fail to acknowledge the choices they made that led them there. They will choose not to ignore that there were interested people that reached out to them, but that fell outside their selection criteria. Perhaps the criteria set too high of a bar, or perhaps the criteria was incongruent with their real desires. Either way, many people wander through life looking for that magical something and failing to find it because it is right in front of them. Why? Because we are short-sighted people that fail to see the comprehensive picture of our future.
Vision does not only apply to business. Vision and mission both apply to our personal lives, apply to how we approach the attainment of our goals and desires. But our vision is faulty -- we miss the simple things because we are too caught up in false goals, ideas that are either unattainable, or ideas that are only attainable after we achieve shorter-term goals that never receive the focus.
I am guilty of all of this as well from time to time. But I ask you this? Are you really interested in finding someone? Is it possible that we have skewed perspectives? I think so. I cannot understand how someone could say "all I want is a nice guy (or girl)" and then ignore them. I love the movie Just Friends. The premise of the movie are high school friends, where the boy has a crush on the girl, are "just friends", and how in their adult years they deal with the ramifications of their high school choices. How often does this play out in the real world? Every day. Each one of us has had a friendship or relationship like that. And ultimately, do we not inevitably miss out on something when we do that?
I'm also amazed at how quick people are to make judgments and misunderstand situations. I told someone tonight that I was screwing around, and she took it literally. I'm sorry, I'm just not that much of a ho. Is it really so important for all of us to be so judgmental and sensitive to offhand comments?
I hope you all have a good night. I think I've had enough for the night.
On a different topic, I would like to share some thoughts about choice today. The temptation is always to put the blame for things externally without taking responsibility for our choices. For example, people will be upset that they cannot find someone special, but they fail to acknowledge the choices they made that led them there. They will choose not to ignore that there were interested people that reached out to them, but that fell outside their selection criteria. Perhaps the criteria set too high of a bar, or perhaps the criteria was incongruent with their real desires. Either way, many people wander through life looking for that magical something and failing to find it because it is right in front of them. Why? Because we are short-sighted people that fail to see the comprehensive picture of our future.
Vision does not only apply to business. Vision and mission both apply to our personal lives, apply to how we approach the attainment of our goals and desires. But our vision is faulty -- we miss the simple things because we are too caught up in false goals, ideas that are either unattainable, or ideas that are only attainable after we achieve shorter-term goals that never receive the focus.
I am guilty of all of this as well from time to time. But I ask you this? Are you really interested in finding someone? Is it possible that we have skewed perspectives? I think so. I cannot understand how someone could say "all I want is a nice guy (or girl)" and then ignore them. I love the movie Just Friends. The premise of the movie are high school friends, where the boy has a crush on the girl, are "just friends", and how in their adult years they deal with the ramifications of their high school choices. How often does this play out in the real world? Every day. Each one of us has had a friendship or relationship like that. And ultimately, do we not inevitably miss out on something when we do that?
I'm also amazed at how quick people are to make judgments and misunderstand situations. I told someone tonight that I was screwing around, and she took it literally. I'm sorry, I'm just not that much of a ho. Is it really so important for all of us to be so judgmental and sensitive to offhand comments?
I hope you all have a good night. I think I've had enough for the night.
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