I love analogies. They help to make your point and they are fun to figure out. Writing on a blog IS LIKE having a diary that you WANT people to read. You are sharing thought with others and not just your future viewing. Thank you so much for reading by the way.
Having professional sports teams compete with widely varying pay structures and vastly uneven overall payrolls is not fair to the fans or the teams. It IS LIKE having a 100-yard dash with a field of 8 sprinters. Numbers one and two, you guys are good to go; numbers three and four, put on these winter coats, numbers five and six you run with these work boots; numbers seven and eight, you carry these barbells. Ready, set, go... not fair:(
Here is another. Doing good works for others IS LIKE mining gold. Some are large and produce quick results on a large scale, while others are nuggets. Many nuggets add up over time and the results are still large.
What analogy can you share?
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Leader ..... Follower
Even if you are not a natural born leader, it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be a follower. I mean, of course, a follower of what other people are doing.
There is a form of following that I have come to think of as "the law of the jungle." To me this means that everyone is doing it because everyone is doing it. We all accept it because we have always done it this way. Sometimes, this could be good. Other times, it is very limiting.
In a book that I recently read by author, Matthew Kelly, he refers to every person becoming the very best version of his or herself. Often, taking advice from trusted sources is a form of following that helps you to become your own best version. Often, taking advice or following others leads you down the wrong path.
Still other times, simply following "the law of the jungle' leads you to become a very complacent version of yourself. That is why I think that we need to assess every situation and decide if we are going to follow, lead, or just take our own path.
Life is full of these kinds of decisions. I think that it is very important not to just to default to following.
There is a form of following that I have come to think of as "the law of the jungle." To me this means that everyone is doing it because everyone is doing it. We all accept it because we have always done it this way. Sometimes, this could be good. Other times, it is very limiting.
In a book that I recently read by author, Matthew Kelly, he refers to every person becoming the very best version of his or herself. Often, taking advice from trusted sources is a form of following that helps you to become your own best version. Often, taking advice or following others leads you down the wrong path.
Still other times, simply following "the law of the jungle' leads you to become a very complacent version of yourself. That is why I think that we need to assess every situation and decide if we are going to follow, lead, or just take our own path.
Life is full of these kinds of decisions. I think that it is very important not to just to default to following.
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