Your Life is Under Construction
Sometime into my first or second year of college, I got the distinct and lasting impression that, while I was working on improving my life through education, I was really just jumping the hurdles that lay before me until I finally hit the point, where I could say that I had accomplished my large goal or had “made it” as many people say. I felt like I just had to finish school and that then, in a sense, I would be done with the busy work and could move on to real life. Many people around me seemed to have the same feeling. Unfortunately, when I graduated, I felt like I still hadn’t arrived and that there were still more hurdles to jump before I would, so I went back for an MA. . . and then an MBA because I still had the same feeling.
It was during my MBA studies that I started to realize that you should constantly be working toward rolling goals and that what I thought was busy work was just groundwork for every successive accomplishment in my life. During one of my final MBA class meetings, an older, and wiser, friend said that that original feeling never goes away and that you will always feel like there’s something else that you need to be working on.
This thought came to mind recently on my trip to LA as I was being surprised by all of the construction, especially on the freeways. Construction never seems to stop, does it? Because, when one project is done, responsible public administrators realize that there is something else that needs to be built, renovated, inspected, etc. Similiarly, if you are not resting on your laurels and letting life pass you by, you will always have something that needs to be done.
Your life is under construction. Will you plan for your next success while working toward one currently? Or, will you be satisfied to finish what you are doing now and then play catch up later?
Tags: busy work, construction, education, hurdles, life, Los Angeles, realization
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