If you have ever seen the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory you may have spotted that Willy Wonka says on at least 2 occasions in the film "hurry, hurry - we have so much time and so little to do.. no wait! reverse that".
Isn't that an interesting confusion. Loads of us wake up in the morning without much idea of what we will do today, pretty much living along the lines of "so much time and so little to do".
At the same time, we all know that time in this life is just about the most precious commodity, certainly more precious than oil, gold or plain old currency. If we know time is precious then surely we should be living by the Wonka notion of hurrying to do the things we need to do.
What am I blathering on about?
Well I was driving along in the car yesterday and listening to a podcast by David Maister (link) and he was talking about earning trust with clients. As I listened I thought that this was fantastic information that he was sharing, but then I realised that very very few people were ever really likely to benefit from his wisdom.
Why?
Simply put people are busy finding daft things to do to fill up their day because they have so much time and so little of real importance to do.
Isn't this mad?
I began to wonder whether it will be possible for me to continue to learn indefinitely and I've pretty much decided I can. I'm priming my brain with all kinds of insights from any and everywhere because it just seems that this is a good way of doing so much with so little time.
I have to admit that this makes me feel like I'm making good use of the limited time I have on Earth to make an impact. I certainly won't be able to do that if I'm at home watching reality-TV.
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