Thursday, February 05, 2015

Get To It

"Our great business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." - Thomas Carlyle
My sister, Joyce, and I write letters back and forth. It is a bit of a tradition that we include a quote either in the letter or on the back of the envelope. The above quote is what I included with my most recent letter. I picked it because all to often at work it seems that we spend so much time worrying about what may come along in the future that we don't do what lies clearly at hand.


If that seems too short sighted to anyone then I implore you to remember the popular quote of Lao-tzu. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."