- How do you work?
- How do innovate?
- How do you get things done?
- How do you "show up" when it is time to engage in your life/work?
These were questions I re-read 23 days after writing them in my Moleskine journal.
I was at the bookstore, having just picked up my new notebook, and the entry on the first page a page that has been processed 100% - was all about trying to figure out where I am, when I am there.
So, there are at least 3 time zones to consider: Past Present Future
My current reality, what I do and how I do it, is dependant at any given time on my engagement in or with one of those periods of time.
If I focus on the past, I look at what happened, how I got something done, what went into making that thing possible, often to the exclusion of how right now is different.
If I focus on the present, I think about what I am doing, often to the exclusion of what I have learned from previous experiences or what I have not yet seen that may go into assisting me in the future.
If I focus on the future, I think about what I am going to do later, how things will be later, what might get in the way later; too many times, I still catch myself focusing extensively here, and, I realize that I am trying to live in the future, now. And, as much as I think I understand about what that future will look like, I know that I can not know enough about how it is going to be to base my current thinking only on what does not yet exist.
Well, with all that said, I hope you are wondering (like I was) about how to keep up with where you (1) were, (2) are and (3) are going. I find it a constant, vigilant process, and look forward to finding more and new ways to engage with what I am doing, when I am doing it.
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