Quality Time

Certain qualities hallmark people for above-average success in life.  One quality I admire immensely in both Dave & Candy is their ability to see what's before them to be done, then apply themselves to attending to it (and, conversely, taking care to NOT get swept into doing things that distract their attention & dilute their efforts).  Their minutes, days, weeks, months & years add up to quality time.

Seeing the wise goals & best next steps each morning, avoiding the many things eager to crowd in & distract me throughout the day from taking best next steps - those are core characteristic worth developing.  If I choose.  It's one or the other.  No middle ground.  Do I care enough to act, or only to prattle?  

What I can't do is say I care, then do nothing.  That is profanation.  Sound a bit over the top?  Not really.  Humans just get so comfortable with shafting themselves on a daily basis, that calling that tendency to see what needs attention, to say we will give it, then not, by it's true name seems overkill.

It's not.  Imagine every one of us waking up, seeing what is before us to be done, then doing it.  Our world would WORK.  Where does that perverse drive to derail come from?  Our infernal inclinations.  

Wake up, see what's in front of me, discern what warrants my attention & energies, and (just as important) what doesn't.  Do the one, distance myself from the other.  No big fa-de-ra, just clear vision & wisely focused action.