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Tim Moore
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The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist growing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever...
David Gilmour's poignant lyric from High Hopes may appeal to you at a time of year- ending, year-beginning.
The flickering lamp of history gropes along the trail of our past, trying to reconstruct its decisions, to revive its echoes and to retrieve our irretrievable youth. The light shines on the "what-ifs" and "should-have-beens" that linger from decisions made: opportunities seized and those forsaken. What good does this do since our best intentions clouded with indecision are no match for the Fates or life's ironies? The perspective of time has lengthened, and yesterdays are always seen in a different setting.
You hear a lot more of these sentiments lately, flowing from colleagues of all ages and histories, expressing regret over not having done the right thing at the right time.
Certainties are rare in battle, business, or relationships. In fact, very little is certain in any corner of our lives.
Over our personal and professional days, there are only a select number of waves that surge past. Some beg to be caught, promising a life-changing opportunity to be captured. Others tempt and intrigue us for a moment, then roll away into the past. In the end, there are only commitments and consequences-at least that's all I've even known. Sometimes it can paralyze us in those rare as emeralds moments when we should act, should take it all in our own two hands then make the unlikely leap of deliverance that might change our life. But...we hesitate just for a moment, and history has already swept over us.
Facing decisions of varying import really becomes a matter of using the knowledge and emotion we possess at that moment, relying on the principle of calculated risk and apparent reward. Self-recrimination based on our belief that "we blew it" through a bad decision is like blaming the gravitational pull of the Moon. Retracing footsteps back down the slope to rethink or to regret, is a colossal waste of our time and emotion.
What really matters is that we made a decision: a job, a move, a friend, a marriage. We figure our odds, calculate the risks, project the implications good and bad, then weigh anchor and shove off.
So if you're spending time in the small hours, agonizing over a plan gone wrong or an opportunity missed along the way, let yourself off the hook. You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it back up again when the right wave rolls toward you. There's no such thing as "the last great chance," and recognizing which to engage and which to let pass by, can make all the difference.
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Sincerely,
Tim Moore
Managing Partner
Audience Development Group |
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