Suppose you had a crystal ball. You gaze into the ball, and it starts to reveal your life for the next twenty years. It’s showing your future. How would it look?
Project Into Your Future: Appreciate the Small Stuff
While there are no definite ways to peer into the future to date, you do have some control over the process. There are random events that will be beyond your control.
Unfortunately, some of them will be unpleasant. But, there’s a lot you can do to shape your future.
The point of the exercise is to try and determine if you appreciate the small things in your life.
A look into the crystal ball
Are you spending time with family or friends? Or are you working long hours and not interacting with anyone?
If you keep your focus on making money, you may look back on your time and wish you hadn’t. There’s much more to life than work.
At some point, the company could turn you loose. They may replace you with someone younger and less expensive.
You aren’t as important to them as you make yourself out to be. Everyone is replaceable.
People do need to work. You have to be able to provide for your family.
But, you need to have a balance between work and spending time with your family and friends. Work and money are things you can always manage to find.
Family and friends are irreplaceable as is the time you spend with them.
Opportunity knocks
Another reason to spend time with people is they can also present you with opportunities. For instance, you may not like your career, but you stick with it because the money is good and it’s steady work.
As you interact with other people, you may hear about opportunities for work that you’d much prefer. This kind of thing happens quite often.
If you spent the majority of your time at your job, you would never discover these opportunities.
Of course, you don’t want your friendships to be dependent on the opportunities they provide. Yet, friendships often lead to forming new ventures.
That’s a natural part of the process.
But don’t pick your job on the basis of forming close friendships. In time some co-workers can become good friends.
Just remember that these relationships are professional.
JohnK 6-11-2019
Overheard: “We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” ~Albert Schweitzer
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