12/10/2010
Is it just me? It seems every person - check that, most people - I meet are doing more than it is possible for any one person to do, particularly the person I am observing at the moment. This goes beyond multi-tasking. This is Lifetime Juggling with increasingly more balls in the air. And here's the thing. I believe you can only be in physical contact with two balls at a time when you juggle. So whether it's 3 or 100 balls, you are only touching two at a time. The rest are in the air.
It seems to me that more stuff is in the air than in touch. Is it just me? And it's not that we are failing at Lifetime Juggling (should be - probably WILL BE - an Olympic Event). We are not dropping balls. The "stuff" is getting done. But with what level of personal satisfaction?
I think I love technology. I am pretty sure I can no longer live easily without it. I am certain technology has enabled me to have far more than one ball in the air at a time. Technology can also be largely credited, I suspect, for the fact that so few balls are dropped. But I also suspect technology is what is largely responsible for the proliferation of new balls!
I mean really, just how much do I HAVE to accomplish here? And what happens when a few balls get dropped? I am one of those who have that inner thing that says I must NEVER drop a ball. That "thing" lives inside me right next door to another thing that says I can never be late.
More balls in the air. More stuff gets done. As I approach the end of 2010 and consider all the stuff I have gotten done - and how few balls I have dropped - I am drawing a sharper focus on where my time went and how much quality community - and family - time I sacrificed to run at 180% with few dropped balls.
How about you?