http://www.parkeladd.com/2009/02/04/bloody-fingers-rock-climbing-how-they-apply-to-your-small-business/ Rediscover Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:38:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.parkeladd.com/2009/02/04/bloody-fingers-rock-climbing-how-they-apply-to-your-small-business/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Michael Ladd Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:46:46 +0000 http://parkeladd.com/?p=537#comment-58 There's a lot of truth in this blog. I can think of a few times when I have started learning a skill and then walking away from it after a short time of strugle. Many times though, I think we just need a little push, but not necessarily words of encouragement. Allow me to clarify. The realization of a specific passion in our own lives is just as important as the realization of a specific passion in the life of someone else. There have been times when an individual has seen something in me--a skill, a desire, and love--and have taken the initiative to inform me of my own passion. While this doesn't always produce a response which parallels with his/her suggestion, it does force me to reexamine my life, to ask those meaningful questions: Why am I doning what I'm doing? Do I really want to go where this path is taking me? Am I wasting my time doing something I will never really have a passion for or commitment to and, therefore, will never do well? I think sometimes we get to a certain point where we put so much energy and focus into a single goal or plan that we miss what's going on around us. We become so consumed with "where I'm going" that don't realize the many areas of life in which we could do more good and perhaps even enjoy. It is because of this blindness, which just about everyone experiences at least once in his life, that the importance of the communication I mentioned before is also important simply because at times we don't realize that we hate the situation we are currently in and that we could be great if the dirrection of our pusuit was altered. There’s a lot of truth in this blog. I can think of a few times when I have started learning a skill and then walking away from it after a short time of strugle. Many times though, I think we just need a little push, but not necessarily words of encouragement. Allow me to clarify. The realization of a specific passion in our own lives is just as important as the realization of a specific passion in the life of someone else. There have been times when an individual has seen something in me–a skill, a desire, and love–and have taken the initiative to inform me of my own passion. While this doesn’t always produce a response which parallels with his/her suggestion, it does force me to reexamine my life, to ask those meaningful questions: Why am I doning what I’m doing? Do I really want to go where this path is taking me? Am I wasting my time doing something I will never really have a passion for or commitment to and, therefore, will never do well? I think sometimes we get to a certain point where we put so much energy and focus into a single goal or plan that we miss what’s going on around us. We become so consumed with “where I’m going” that don’t realize the many areas of life in which we could do more good and perhaps even enjoy. It is because of this blindness, which just about everyone experiences at least once in his life, that the importance of the communication I mentioned before is also important simply because at times we don’t realize that we hate the situation we are currently in and that we could be great if the dirrection of our pusuit was altered.

]]> http://www.parkeladd.com/2009/02/04/bloody-fingers-rock-climbing-how-they-apply-to-your-small-business/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Nathan Maggard Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:24:09 +0000 http://parkeladd.com/?p=537#comment-57 Sometimes I think we'd RATHER have our fingertips bloodied all at once!...The art of the start is a longer more strenuous battle I think. It does help to attribute a physical feat to the challenge though -good analogies. Nathan Maggard Sometimes I think we’d RATHER have our fingertips bloodied all at once!…The art of the start is a longer more strenuous battle I think. It does help to attribute a physical feat to the challenge though -good analogies.
Nathan Maggard

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