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I find myself hanging out with a few great people these days.  I often spend time chatting and discussing life.  Accordingly, I have not been writing as much as I’d like.  I’m just going to roll with it for a bit.  I do need to exercise my brain by recording thoughts.  That’s not the real exercise (for me).  It’s sharing thoughts so that others can easily understand them that is a bit draining and a bit challenging at times.

Sometimes I wonder, why is it that expressing a great idea is so much more difficult than having a great idea?  I know that implementation is always harder than expression.  Maybe it’s part of my recent efforts to live pretty simply and minimize the “stuff” around me from a material possessions viewpoint.  That’s great, but it is also something that’s hard to become infectious with.  You see, I don’t think a great idea or even a batch of great ideas is enough.  I want to makes stuff happen and be a person of action, not just just intellectual jargon and rhetoric.  Action begets habits and ultimately changes lives and changes the world.

So, connecting the dots, I realize that for me it is a season for listening and filtering and absorbing.  Then there will be a  season for planning.  And, then there will be a longer season for doing.  There is a lot of similarities to the consulting work that takes up my daytime, work day hours.  Envision. Plan. Develop. Deploy. Support. Rinse. Repeat.

I think I’m envisioning and planning, for this “rest of my life” project.  I know there are plenty of cross-overs between the business world and the regular, interpersonal world.  I also know that there are plenty of things that do not cross over.  I’m trying to be patient and learn, while I have some great people around me.  I’m trying to absorb and personalize life lessons that I want to make my own.  And, I’m trying to be simple along the way.  It’s not a challenge for the faint of heart!