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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

Tuesday May 15, 2018

Q - How do you eat elephant?

A - One bite at a time.

Not eating endangered species. Rather, addressing elephant-sized problems, projects and challenges in life.

So easy to say, so easy to chuckle about and so easy to hear.

How do you each an elephant?

With a very large fork.  Sometimes a pitch-fork, to toss aside that which should be discarded, set aside or left behind.

Takes precious time. We seem to never have enough, yet we all have so many unaccounted-for hours every week.

If we kept track of every minute we would see graphically what we know deeply – we waste time, waste opportunity – avoiding use of either fork or pitch-fork or distracting ourselves with worthy pursuits, but those worthy pursuits take time we ought to be using to deal with that elephant.

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TO BE CLEAR AND TO BE PRESENT

Greetings, Mark. Thanks for sharing…very inspiring! I think you meant to say that “Goals are dreams with a deadline”, though. It’s origin? Napoleon Hill . Happy Monday to you!, PW, Calgary, AB


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