Experience Redux

[Adapted from Peter Thompson, TGI Monday, 18 February 2013]

People say they have experience.

As you and I know – some of them actually do, though most of them have far less than they think they have or artfully represent – because:

When they state they have 20 year’s experience, in reality, many have 1 year’s experience – 20 times!

There they are doing the same things time after time after time.

·         Getting up at the same time
·         Eating the same food
·         Travelling the same road
·         Doing the same tasks
·         Meeting the same people
·         Going to the same places
·         Saying the same things
·         Going to bed at the same time
·         Watching the same TV programs

The same – the same – the same!

This is NOT, no way, no how – 20 year’s experience.  It’s ONLY the same stuff repeated.

How about…

·         Doing something new – something more exciting
·         Something more – experiential
·         Getting up at a different time
·         Eating different food
·         Travelling a different road
·         Doing different tasks
·         Meeting different people
·         Going to different places
·         Saying different things
·         Going to bed at a different time
·         Watching different TV programs
·         Living a ‘different’ life!

OR, how about doing whatever you do a different way, BETTER, FASTER, more EFFICIENTLY, with HIGHER QUALITY OUTCOMES, with ADVANCED/EXPANDED APPLICATIONS ...

The target here is not simply the reduction of boredom.  It’s increasing and expanding our capacities; it’s “Becoming”; it’s making a statement about YOU, Inc./ME, Inc.; it’s about being on the “A-Team” and in the mainstream.   It’s about how much of a DIFFERENCE we make.  QM 

“You’ve gotta get outta your own self’s way.”

“Change your attitude and change your habits and you can [not only] change who you are [… but become a key ‘Change Agent’ for the world].”  UK Basketball Coach John Calipari