Filling error

We look at how time impacts who we are in the present. Let’s imagine there are three filing cabinets. One filing cabinet is marked as future, one filing cabinet is marked as present, and one is marked as past.

We think if we had files from the past, we would put them where the past is, but if we look at all human beings somewhere in life makes a serious filing error, that we take our files marked as past and put them in the filing cabinet marked as future. Therefore, when we look into the future, we see that the cabinet is filled with the past. And, we’ve been filling files marked past into the future cabinet little by little, leaving no space for the future. When we distinguish that and get the past out of the future and put it back in the past, leaving the future empty, that’s what it’s about having a future that’s open to being created.

Many tabs

We swipe instead of click.

We scan instead of reading. Even our personal email…

We get exposure to far more at the surface but rarely dig in.

As a result, the fine print gets ignored. We go for headlines, not nuance.

It’s not an accident that blog posts and tweets are getting shorter. We rarely stick around for the long version.

Photokeratitis (snow blindness) happens when there’s too much ultraviolet–when the fuel for our eyes comes in too strong, and we can’t absorb it all. Something similar is happening. It’s a tsunami of gossip and thin promises, vying for our attention.

It’s possible you can find an edge by going even faster and focusing even more on breadth at the surface. But it’s far more satisfying and highly leveraged to go the other way instead, even if it’s just for a few hours a day.

If you care about something, consider taking a moment to slow down and understand it. And if you don’t care, no need to even bother with the surface.

Superabundant

We can choose to commit to a chronic and perpetual path that agilely creates more of the same.

We can choose possibility.

We can choose connection.

We can choose optimism.

We can choose justice.

We can choose kindness.

We can choose resilience.

We can choose to take responsibility.

Each leads to more of the same.