Schedule This !!!
Most of us like to use the word 'schedule' every now and then during the day and sometimes we use it so often that it starts to sound like we doth protest too much.
With the possible exception of people who've been in the armed forces for a long time, most of us wander through life using home-made schedule templates and changing them to suit whatever pops up. I know I do.
Although making and sticking to schedules is heralded by the experts as the epitome of efficiecy, what happens to us when things suddenly go wrong? How do we cope? I mean how do we cope without panic? Panic is easy, right? But did it ever fix anything for you? Give you a clearer mind? Teach you anything?
Just before something jumped in to make a jumble of today's schedule, I read some words of wisdom to "do things for delight and mastery, rather than for terms and profit '. For now, I'll stick with the 'delight and mastery ' part.
There I was, chicken little with the sky falling, stopped in my tracks because I immediately fired up the "what-the-hell-am-I-gonna-do-now" whine. Good thing I still have a decent short-term memory. Before my whine had died to a whimper, it occurred to me that I had an opportunity to learn another way.
A schedule is only a guide to get us through the day. Take a detour if things start to get messed up. You might not find mastery today, but you might find enough delight to make you want proficiency.
Peace
With the possible exception of people who've been in the armed forces for a long time, most of us wander through life using home-made schedule templates and changing them to suit whatever pops up. I know I do.
Although making and sticking to schedules is heralded by the experts as the epitome of efficiecy, what happens to us when things suddenly go wrong? How do we cope? I mean how do we cope without panic? Panic is easy, right? But did it ever fix anything for you? Give you a clearer mind? Teach you anything?
Just before something jumped in to make a jumble of today's schedule, I read some words of wisdom to "do things for delight and mastery, rather than for terms and profit '. For now, I'll stick with the 'delight and mastery ' part.
There I was, chicken little with the sky falling, stopped in my tracks because I immediately fired up the "what-the-hell-am-I-gonna-do-now" whine. Good thing I still have a decent short-term memory. Before my whine had died to a whimper, it occurred to me that I had an opportunity to learn another way.
A schedule is only a guide to get us through the day. Take a detour if things start to get messed up. You might not find mastery today, but you might find enough delight to make you want proficiency.
Peace
upma
