Great post here:
www.thedominoproject.com/2011/04/how-do-you-really-do-the-work.html
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
"Right"ness
One of the benefits of being a computer programmer / problem solver is that I am pretty good at finding the "right" way to do something, provided that there is indeed a "right" way. For example, I am a big fan of crossword puzzles - both the New York Times variety, as well as the cryptic (or "British") variety. Now, as we all know, there is one-and-only-one solution to a crossword puzzle. A person need only flip to the back of the book to see what should go in each of those squares.
Life is not a crossword puzzle though! As I dream and plan and research and try to get my head around the stock market and any number of things, there is no crossword puzzle style solution to it all. It's probably a good thing, in that it's forcing me to think differently and (hopefully) expand those parts of my brain that don't get worked out too often. But my, it is a struggle.
I had another insight tonight listening to Robert G. Allen's Multiple Streams of Income CD series (a nice $5 find at a local church rummage sale last week!). I was so glad to hear him say that many people, when thinking of stepping out entrepreneurally, think along the lines of, "why should I do this project, since, after all, many others have already done such a thing?" So I'm not the only one! That's encouraging. I think that a person could end up doing absolutely nothing if they let that thinking dominate them. Perhaps it's that fear of reinventing the wheel. Well, I say, so what? If I reinvent the wheel... then I have my own wheel.
Eeriochay
Life is not a crossword puzzle though! As I dream and plan and research and try to get my head around the stock market and any number of things, there is no crossword puzzle style solution to it all. It's probably a good thing, in that it's forcing me to think differently and (hopefully) expand those parts of my brain that don't get worked out too often. But my, it is a struggle.
I had another insight tonight listening to Robert G. Allen's Multiple Streams of Income CD series (a nice $5 find at a local church rummage sale last week!). I was so glad to hear him say that many people, when thinking of stepping out entrepreneurally, think along the lines of, "why should I do this project, since, after all, many others have already done such a thing?" So I'm not the only one! That's encouraging. I think that a person could end up doing absolutely nothing if they let that thinking dominate them. Perhaps it's that fear of reinventing the wheel. Well, I say, so what? If I reinvent the wheel... then I have my own wheel.
Eeriochay
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