Monday, November 15, 2021

No Time is Ever the Right TIme

This will be short.  It is about procrastination.  It is about being stuck in life.

There is a song by Adele named Easy on Me.  The refrain of the song is, "I had no time to choose what I chose to do".  It is a lament about youth and being stuck in her ways.  Later in the song she talks about having good intentions and the highest hopes.  Nonetheless, it is a song of regret - of an older self reflecting on a younger self.

From my perspective, her song speaks to the "plight of the commoner".  It is a life resigned to the way things are, even with the best-of-intentions.  It is "knowing" things can be different, but doing nothing about it, and this realization coming only from the wisdom of the passage of time.

Many times people get swept along by the inertia of family, social, or cultural expectations and as Adele says, "I had no time to choose what I chose to do".  Eveything in life is reduced to an unconscious whirlwind, in the absence of affirmative choices being made.  No time is ever the right time and days and weeks turn into months and years.  In the end, nothing changes.

This song captures a small slice of "why" people get stuck in life.  Our business simply poses an option - that includes a plan to follow for people to get un-stuck.


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