“Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.” -George Leonard (Mastery)
Bosses love benchmarks, especially in Business. They say what you want to achieve must be measured. Measuring performance helps you to be able to correct it before it’s too late and the problem outgrows a solution. But how do you measure the performance of your soul?
Trying to be a good Parent and being a good Parent are two entirely different things. It’s hard to measure a Child’s true progress. While getting them to recite facts is the de facto measure, you really can’t test a child’s overall capability in life. It’ll take years of love, understanding and patience to help realize their full potential.
But a child learns with a certain wonderment that we as adults have seemed to have lost. They have an innate sense of hope and wonder, no matter how many times they need to fail at a thing to get it right.
I feel we as career folk eventually stop feeling this way. We don’t look forward to our greater potential with wonder and amusement. We root ourselves in surviving the harsh world we live in. We try and keep our jobs, not thrive in them. We stop looking for better jobs until we absolutely have to, usually only following a lay off.
Keep that childlike curiosity throughout your life. It will be the fuel you need to succeed during your journey on whatever path you’re on. Because the Journey was what was needed all along, not your destination.
Until Tomorrow,
Jason Ziebarth (Club255)
JZ#459