Just when I thought I knew all self-help advice on success from our favorite green Jedi Master I heard another. Everyone’s favorite being, “Do or Do not, there is no try”. Last weekend I was on vacation and one evening I re-watched Empire Strikes Back with my sons. And there is the scene where Luke is whining and moaning about having to find Yoda now, and how didn’t have time to eat the swill the little green hermit had set before him. Yoda then relates how Luke is like his father, Anakin, “always looking to the future and not paying attention to the task at hand.”
I am Anakin, I waste a lot of time, worry and thought on tomorrow to the detriment of today. We all should be setting goals and working towards the future, but too many times we don’t get today’s work done because we are doing things for tomorrow.
I have more I could say about this but writing this post is not what I should be doing right now. Maybe I will write something further later.
