I had the thought this weekend while walking along a road by Shuswap Lake, BC. We each have lots of history, like walking down a road, swimming in lake, meeting a person or going to a new city. But what if we considered in this minute that we were writing “T”history. “This Story” where the T stands for Time Sensitive?
There was a first today, my 12 year old son Mitch got out of the water on a slalom water ski. And he felt comfortable and stable to ski for a good kilometer. Very exciting. A bit of “This Story”, a bit of history. I’m sure we can all remember some of our firsts… first time waterskiiing, snowskiing, a cool hotel, being in Montreal, putting our face in the salty ocean water. Many firsts.
What i’m trying to get at in this post, is as the sun comes up we have time sensitve, important commitmnts that we need to take care of. It struck me that as we interact with our family, our friends, our coworkers our customers we create “T”history all the time. We are constantly having to use our ability to discern between two activities and determine which is more important at the time. And as we do this, the story unfolds. We move forward and take forks in the road. Life is far from a straightline where we make a few decisions and off we go. Especially the case if we explore different cities and meet people from different “Tribes” (Seth Godin book reference)
More on Tribes.
David Harper 