PONDER
Saturday Apr. 13, 2013
Meaning is more important, but efficiency is necessary – motivation is so complex. Pondering . . . not so much about efficiency but about meaning.
I struggle . . . this is on my mind today.
Option 1: Planning and executing time – period before something happens and when it actually takes place – fascinating blend of resolve, planning, re-thinking, energizing, invigorating, motivating, de-motivating. Important, valuable . . . but an emotional maze.
Option 2: Alternatively, the spontaneous arrival of opportunity and intrigue – inspires, energizes, imagination thrives, fatigue falls away.
I’m wrestling between these alternatives – I have two projects I’m bogged down with that fit the first option, and every day I encounter ones that fit the second.
All projects are valuable – some intrinsically, some financially, some are fun.
I struggle with making the Option 1 projects more fun, more spontaneous.
I struggle with make the Option 2 projects more productive – to better judge which ones are truly worthwhile, which ones are just appearing to be that way but will disappoint.
I am not wrestling with duty/obligation issues or time-management ones, but happiness management ones . . .
It isn’t about working for fee, or for free, but about putting my shoulder to the wheel for the accomplishment of something valuable. Something I feel is valuable. Money is part of that, but not the primary motivator.
Productive?
Happier?
Mark Kolke
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column written/ published from Calgary
morning walk: 1C / 34F, foggy sky, soggy ground, light breeze, but not warm enough to get people outside (snow predicted) so it was very peaceful, uneventful
Comments Received:
Okay, really deep requiring some additional thought and quite frankly ill-equipped to comment just now. So, let me move once again into my arrested development mindset with a response to “yard dogs who yap through fences” - do you ever think about what they are saying. Stay out of my yard, or come in and play with me because I am so lonely. Or, heard any good doggy gossip lately. Let me tell you what the scuttlebutt in the neighborhood is right now. Or even, gee your fur smells terrific. I can smell it from all the way through the fence. Guess I am more in a non-sensical mood today but will revisit your profound musings later. GW, Brady, Tx.
