It’s spring.  Time for a change, for a reality check and for updating, rethinking and revisiting.  That goes for Perspectives in Brief as well.  I’m making it shorter, sweeter and more to the point ’cause I’d rather you read less and took time to figure it out more.    

So for today we’re going to think about how to get out of reacting mode.  People are scrambling as fast as they can do to twice as much work with half the resources.  Is it sustainable?  No.

It’s time to think.  It’s time to take time to think. 

Life happens whether or not we’re ready for it.  It just is.  We might live in a disposal world, with instant access and communication, but either the immediate world controls you or you control it. 
  
What’s it going to be?  How fast and for how long are you going to run before you crash and burn?  Rush rush rush.  Something’s gotta get done.  Why are you doing it?
  
The greatest single problem people have these days isn’t time management.  It’s not making the right choices or any choices at all and reacting to whatever’s thrown at them.
  
Stop reacting.  Slow down to go fast.  Think, respond, do it right and for the right reasons.
  
Two reality check questions…
What are the consequences if you do ‘it’?
What are the consequences if you don’t?
 
“…however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. ‘You’d generally get to somewhere else - if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing,’ Alice said. ‘Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’ the Red Queen replied.”  - Lewis Carol, Through the Looking Glass
 
Time to stop running.  Start walking, paying attention to what’s around you and breathe.  Let space back into your life and become one with it.  Take those small quiet times for you to think, just be, and figure out your place in the scheme of things …and beyond.  For every choice you make there are ramifications upon ramifications upon ramifications.  So make those choices great.  
  
With deepest respect,
Donna Karlin
Founder and Principal
A Better Perspective
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