Nobody wants to do it, but unavoidably we must get around to facing what’s really important or and the difficult conversations before it’s too late.
In the workplace, during a relationship, or at particularly crucial points in our lives, critical conversations are necessary and inescapable. Avoiding them is delaying the inevitable, so we should learn when and where and how to have these discussions successfully.
Now I’m not just talking about the conversations you have with your children about the birds and the bees, or why we don't have sex before marriage, or the ill effects of underage drinking. These are important topics as well and deserve your attention and focus. All of this is important to be sure. And I am not suggesting you are abdicating your role, but I am pointing out that there are inevitable conversations that you and millions of others at this very moment are ignoring, and it’s not helping the situation at all.
Okay. I said this was gonna be tough talk, so here goes.
Let me break it to you with a story. Right now, my wife and daughter are preparing for trip to Hawaii. We love the Islands just like many of you. Though we visit them frequently, it’s never enough. Still, we try to remember to plan all the places we want to go and schedule the activities we would like to do. Yet, even with the best planning, it doesn’t always work out how we had hoped, and to delay our preparations too long means we won’t be able to schedule the places we had hoped see or make arrangements for all the activities that we like doing. It is possible to enjoy the most popular activities and sites but unlikely if we procrastinate too long.
In the same way, delaying writing our story and capturing our life events for too long means that our posterity will inevitably not know many things about us that could help them in their lives, and it actually prevents us from learning about our importance to them here and now.
You have all heard this before. It seems like you will get around to it, but there are always a lot more important things that need doing right now, so we put it off another day.
Eventually, it is too late—but that point hasn’t arrived, so we’re okay delaying for one more day.
But if we wait too long our focus steers us wrong until it's too little too late. Nobody wants to be left out of the picture .. nobody.
Don’t wait anymore.
Give your posterity what they really want: YOU in perpetuity
In the workplace, during a relationship, or at particularly crucial points in our lives, critical conversations are necessary and inescapable. Avoiding them is delaying the inevitable, so we should learn when and where and how to have these discussions successfully.
Now I’m not just talking about the conversations you have with your children about the birds and the bees, or why we don't have sex before marriage, or the ill effects of underage drinking. These are important topics as well and deserve your attention and focus. All of this is important to be sure. And I am not suggesting you are abdicating your role, but I am pointing out that there are inevitable conversations that you and millions of others at this very moment are ignoring, and it’s not helping the situation at all.
Okay. I said this was gonna be tough talk, so here goes.
Let me break it to you with a story. Right now, my wife and daughter are preparing for trip to Hawaii. We love the Islands just like many of you. Though we visit them frequently, it’s never enough. Still, we try to remember to plan all the places we want to go and schedule the activities we would like to do. Yet, even with the best planning, it doesn’t always work out how we had hoped, and to delay our preparations too long means we won’t be able to schedule the places we had hoped see or make arrangements for all the activities that we like doing. It is possible to enjoy the most popular activities and sites but unlikely if we procrastinate too long.
In the same way, delaying writing our story and capturing our life events for too long means that our posterity will inevitably not know many things about us that could help them in their lives, and it actually prevents us from learning about our importance to them here and now.
You have all heard this before. It seems like you will get around to it, but there are always a lot more important things that need doing right now, so we put it off another day.
Eventually, it is too late—but that point hasn’t arrived, so we’re okay delaying for one more day.
But if we wait too long our focus steers us wrong until it's too little too late. Nobody wants to be left out of the picture .. nobody.
Don’t wait anymore.
Give your posterity what they really want: YOU in perpetuity
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