With Remembrance Day this week, I try to take stock of things in such a fast paced world.
It sometimes seems to me that we give so much credence to ethereal concepts, regulations, KPIs, the stock market, our bank account…. generally things we can’t touch.
Yet the things we can touch , the things close to us ,our loved ones, our colleagues, our neighbours, even our pets and the briefness that we will have them around us we so often take for granted.
So I had an idea…
What if we were to grade the focus and importance that we put on things in alignment with how much we would miss them if they were gone?
I’m sure we have had those days when we are in the daily grind and we get a call or text that someone has died or has a grave disease and life stops and perspective hits for a moment. We truly realise that all that stuff that we thought was so important is not really all that much craic
Let’s say we have 100 focus points a day to use up…..
How many of those points do we honestly allocate to our mother and father? our children ? our pets? our friends and colleagues as actual people not just tools to use in completion of our agenda ?
Me… honestly and I’m ashamed to say its maybe 10 focus points out of 100.
So what if I was to align those focus points with the things and people I would miss the most if they were gone?
For me there would be a reversal in those figures…
Let me ask you this, if you gave that new allocation of focus…maybe as a call, a text , a funny picture, warm words, a vulnerable moment… how would the quality of your life change…?
A quote springs to mind.. Maybe a cue to slow down and step into the moment this weekend..
What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stop and stare
………….William Henry Davies
Happy Friday