Herman School of Business
Your World...and Your World...
We pay some Tobacco Farmers not to grow a product that kills people. We now have raised the price of corn so high thinking we can make fuel out of it that we are starving people in countries that can no longer afford corn. The people in the Iraq Army will take years to learn how to be soldiers and run their country so we send over our sons and daughters who have been trained for months to do what the Iraq Army can’t do. We spend billions with a “B” to stay in a war that should never have started in the first place.
We send our sons and daughters off to not only get blown up and shot at but we bring them home after seeing a million frightful things that cause many of our own to want out of this world by their own hand…and no one seems to care.
Taxes climb and climb…food prices are escalating at extremely high inflation rates. Gasoline is up and the dollar is down. You can buy a T-shirt for cheap but not a box of corn flakes. Too bad you can’t eat the shirt. Health care is either so expensive you pray for an employer who gives you some, or you risk going without it because you like driving your SUV.
This is the world you live in.
Your world is also about remaining positive and driving forward to hit your goals. Your world is smaller than the big one we all live in. The big one you learn to ignore, block out and spend almost no time thinking about, because Your World is about making it at your job, or getting your project finished, or getting your business off the ground. Focus is a funny thing. If you are smart enough to focus on what matters in your little world it is much easier to ignore your big world.
Your little world is about personal things only. Like today I will start a marketing package to seek a syndicator for my proposed weekly newspaper column. I won’t think for five minutes about Iraq. Today I will prepare my outline for the upcoming Texas speech which could lead me to a much larger gig in Chicago later this year…and that could be great for my little world. It won’t make the health care system better for anyone.
Later today I may polish my 1973 Chevy Caprice Classic convertible which was promised to my oldest daughter, who now wants the money instead of the car because apparently her children would rather go to Disneyland than drive around town with the top down. Those lovable little rascals have their own little world needs. But my time spent getting the car ready for sale won’t stop the stupidity that we still supplement tobacco, and it won’t impact government waste and taxes few can afford these days.
Your World is a big scary place with huge problems that seem to get worse every day. And perhaps one of the reasons for that is because the people we elect and put in charge of those Big World things are also ignoring the big problems and concentrating on their own Little World things like running for re-election and trying to stay out of a situation where they might have to actually earn a living.
Sometimes the Big World collides with out Little World and we have to change our focus a bit…that’s when your business or your project usually fall back a step or two…and very little progress is made on the Big World issues. Where is Superman when we need him. Or Superwoman, as I am an equal opportunity Dad with daughters.
My advice…concentrate harder on your Little World and stock pile whatever you can for the future because with no one working on the Big World stuff it is going to get worse before it gets better.
- Posted: 28 April 2008
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- Category: Running a business
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