Message of the Day - Spending Time Alone

Good Morning,

 

My current read is Og Mandino's "Return of the Ragpicker" (http://www.amazon.com/Return-Ragpicker-Og-Mandino/dp/055329993X) which is the sequel to "The greatest miracle in the world". In this wonderful book, the Ragpicker, Simon Potter, who spends his time helping those who are down on their luck and helps them improve their lives.

 

The message Simon says is so critical for our generation to learn is to spend time alone and reflect, and think. That our world is moving faster and faster with new fangled gadgets to save us time, which turn out to be newer and even more insidious time leeches. That we spend so much time just trying to keep up in our world, that we are losing a lot of ourselves.

 

That is when we spend some alone time reflecting, contemplating and thinking, we are able to understand more about our world around us, the people around us and ourselves. Through reflection we can learn even more about what we already know. The challenge is that we seldom give ourselves the chance to do this reflection due to our jumping onto the next task or using the next time saving convenience.

 

Not taking this time means we miss out on all that we can learn from quiet reflection.

 

This is another point my friend Don brought up in his simple and quiet Thanksgiving. He was able to spend some quality alone time and reflect on his recent life happenings, etc.

 

I try to spend time reflecting when I first get up and just lay in bed and think, or when I get ready for bed, I take 10 - 15 minutes every few nights to just rethink what has been going on in my life.

 

Quiet alone time is a powerful tool. It can give us insights we may not be able to get otherwise.  It is well worth the effort to give yourself some alone time every now and then.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Sanford Berenberg
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