On taking lessons to heart...
Last night, I spent some time just shooting the breeze and with a very good friend. He and I have known each other for a long time, and when I lived in Tallahasee it was something we would do on occasion; it's been a while since we've done so, though, and not since I moved back to Birmingham. Lately, however, we have been spending more time together for various reasons; with his wife out of town, we sat back, smoked a couple of cigars, and just talked.
He's always been a friend that I could talk to about... the practicalities of life, about going where you are going, what you are doing, and how you are getting there; he's always been one of my more driven friends. In fact, the very reason we are spending more time together has something to do with me putting myself in a situation where I am surrounding myself with people who are driven, who have managed to succeed temporally.
I am a firm believer that, on occasion, things happen when they do because that is when they are supposed to happen. One of the "lessons" - the kind of practical, rubber-hits-the-road advice and wisdom that we are wont to discuss on occasion - that came up during our buss session, was the importance of networking. Interestingly enough, another friend of mine, whom I had not heard from in a year or so, both a) sent me information on an internet networking tool, which I had been at first willing to discount, and b) completely accidentally got in touch with me and then proceeded to tell me about how useful that tool was.
And yet. Last night, I came home, after being out with him, and then another friend, I had 4 hours to kill before it was time to turn in for the day.
And more or less wasted the entire time.
I am a firm believer in r, r&r - recovery, restoration, and recreation - but I know that rather than resting I tend to idleness; but I also believe that extraordinary results require, always require extraordinary effort. There's rest, and there's rest; there's never an excuse for wasted time.
I probably need to start taking up some sort of physical hobby. I really need to learn how to take unstructured time during which I have no intellectual energy, and turn it into useful work. Does anyone have any suggestions?
He's always been a friend that I could talk to about... the practicalities of life, about going where you are going, what you are doing, and how you are getting there; he's always been one of my more driven friends. In fact, the very reason we are spending more time together has something to do with me putting myself in a situation where I am surrounding myself with people who are driven, who have managed to succeed temporally.
I am a firm believer that, on occasion, things happen when they do because that is when they are supposed to happen. One of the "lessons" - the kind of practical, rubber-hits-the-road advice and wisdom that we are wont to discuss on occasion - that came up during our buss session, was the importance of networking. Interestingly enough, another friend of mine, whom I had not heard from in a year or so, both a) sent me information on an internet networking tool, which I had been at first willing to discount, and b) completely accidentally got in touch with me and then proceeded to tell me about how useful that tool was.
And yet. Last night, I came home, after being out with him, and then another friend, I had 4 hours to kill before it was time to turn in for the day.
And more or less wasted the entire time.
I am a firm believer in r, r&r - recovery, restoration, and recreation - but I know that rather than resting I tend to idleness; but I also believe that extraordinary results require, always require extraordinary effort. There's rest, and there's rest; there's never an excuse for wasted time.
I probably need to start taking up some sort of physical hobby. I really need to learn how to take unstructured time during which I have no intellectual energy, and turn it into useful work. Does anyone have any suggestions?
posted by Jonathan at 7:41 PM
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