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What does this have
to do with Time Management ? A
lot.
Before you can be effective and really make
some positive changes
in
how you deal and treat time, you have
to be able to see the playing field.
You have to not only see the plying
field but know the players, the rules
and how the game
works.
In this case the
game is Time Management , the players
are you and everyone and everything
that interacts with you and finally,
there are no rules, at least not
written down ones. It’s a jungle out
there and everyone of us has to find
out where they are in the pecking
order.
This brings us to
the question, are you a bug or are
you the windshield?
Windshields splatter
bugs, it’s a simple
concept.
Windshields are
hard and bugs are soft, no contest,
the windshields win every time. It’s
an important point to bear in mind,
windshields do Not look for bugs to
splatter, windshields go on
there merry way,
minding their own business and
if a bug happens to be in its path,
splatter. Something else to bear in
mind, the only time a windshield
splatters a bug is when its moving,
unless of course a bug wants to
commit suicide and it fly’s into an
immobile
windshield.
Windshields have
agendas, I don’t suppose you thought
that, but they do. Windshields are
always going from one point to
another point, they are always
moving, here there everywhere, they
have a plan and they are executing
there plan, that constitutes an
agenda.
If you
were a windshield, driving
around, executing your agenda, do you
really care how many bugs you splatter? You
know you are a hard surface, bugs are a
soft surface, you are going to win each
time, why would or should you care? The
reality is, the bugs get in your way, not
the other way around. All you are doing is
going about your business, not bothering
anyone else, especially the
bugs.
Windshields have redeeming
qualities,
I’m sure you were
not aware of that
but they do, in fact
they have several.
They are
polite, when asked, they will slow
down,
they will turn left or
right,
they will stop,
alter their speed, and
do
pretty much what you ask them
too,
all in the goal of
avoiding
splattering
bugs.
They are kind, they will alter
there route in order to avoid
splattering
bugs,all you have to
do is ask them,
nicely
They
are
courteous, even when they have
planned a
route,
if given enough
notice and an alternate route to
take, will take
that
alternate
route in order
to avoid splattering
bugs.
And most of all. Windshields
are SMART, they can learn
different routines,
new ways of doing things and they
take direction very well. All
windshields need is a little
guidance, some patience and someone
to help along the right path and
they can become a productive part of
society.
So do you want to become a windshield?
Maybe you already are
one?
Last
point about windshields. They always
win because the bugs are not a
challenge to them. Bugs are not too
bright, don’t look where they are
going and on top of it all, they are
soft. If you always win, what’s the
point in
changing?
Bugs
If you are a bug,
you don’t have a very bright
future nor a very
long one for that
matter.
Bugs are a strange
breed, some of them exhibit a great
deal of intelligence but
unfortunately the majority of them
are not too bright. Bugs have lives
and this means they have to get and
about everyday, out into the world, a
world that is inhabited by, you
guessed it, windshields. We know all
about windshields, but unfortunately,
it seems that bugs do not. The
problem with bugs, there are several
problems with them, but this one
deals with there in ability to deal
with windshields. You would think
that knowing they are no match for
windshields, knowing they are out
there, they would do a little
planning and organizing to be able to
function with them, but this isn’t
the case. Lets review how bugs
interact with
windshields.
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Bugs see other bugs getting splattered everyday
but don’t learn from this
horrifying spectacle
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Bugs
have an opportunity to plan their day
to avoid windshields, they can plan and
organize
there
day and be in other parts of town far
away from the danger of windshields,
but alas, very few take the time
or trouble to do so.
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It’s
a well know fact that windshields are a
reasonable sort of creature and are
very willing
to
change,
alter and make provisions in
there day to PREVENT unfortunate
sudden fatal collisions between
themselves and bugs. Bugs
know this, they know that they
never survive these sudden impact
situations but for some
unfathomable reason, only known
to the bugs, very rarely spend
the short amount of time
necessary to literally save
themselves from certain
death.
Does
anyone know how to spell
intervention?
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There
is one irrefutable fact that makes the
plight of bugs, usually a very
unsatisfying and short one, they must
get out into the world of the
windshields on a daily basis, no
options, no alternate plans, it’s a
world full of windshields, weather the
bugs like it or not.
What’s a bug
to do? A
bug can’t change the world it has to live
in. What a simple little bug can do to
survive and prosper in a world full of
windshields is change and adapt to the
reality around it.
The question is not do you want to be
a bug, but, if you are a bug, are you
willing to do what it takes to become a
windshield?
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