When I was in 6th grade we went home for Christmas Break. This was at a time when we still had Christmas break and not Winter Break. When we returned at the beginning of January my friend Damon Dumas was riding a unicycle that he'd gotten for Christmas. It was the cheap, red, Toys R Us, unicycle but he'd ridden it the 3 blocks to our school and was demonstrating a certain level of competence. I was a bit jealous and envious and wanted to show him up. I set in to begging and pleading with my mom to get the BEST unicycle out there, The Schwinn with the pneumatic tire and chromed galore! I was very excited and grabbed it with anticipation as I was about to show them all how cool I was! Well, I sucked. It took me about 10 minutes to realize that riding a unicycle was REALLY hard and different. There was no YouTube to find a video to explain how to do it and i was not going to ask anyone for help. There really was no one to ask as Damon had moved and I was stuck with myself...
So right now I am feeling disappointed that others do not share my vision and enthusiasm for where I see my future. I think I need to attack this in a couple of ways: 1) foster and nurture the passion as I develop and refine my vision and business plan. 2) find the folks that will support my vision.
I am reflecting today on how linear our thinking tends to be. We draw a straight line of a to b to c in our life from long range, go to school, get a job, get married, etc,. Life is so not linear. We want our story to be like an episode on tv but truth is until we are dead the story continues and only the chapters change. And non of it is linear.
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