Busyness vs Productivity
I was listening to a podcast the other day (when am I not listening to a podcast?!) and heard a wonderful quote by Corrie ten Boom: “If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.” Then I was reading in “Are you Fully Charged” by Tom Rath, and he had a whole section on busyness versus productivity. The next day I read about being busy in another book (“The 12 Week Year” by Brian Moran and Michael Lennington). Guess the universe is trying to tell me something. If a mouse runs on a wheel all day, it will have been “busy”, but it will have gone nowhere…
Lessons from The Jungle Books
Today I finished reading The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling. I enjoyed the variety of stories and the way they demonstrated different cultures and principles. The last story deals with Mowgli’s transition from the feral young lord of the jungle to a maturing “man cub”. He feels stirrings in his soul that he doesn’t understand, but the wisest animals of the jungle realize that it is the call of Mowgli’s heritage to be who he always was – a human. Interestingly, they recognize him as both their lord of the jungle and tell him that he will always be so, but they also tell him that it is time…
