“Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has…” (Great Work quote)
“Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task
that has a beginning and an end
balances out the complexity-without-end
that often vexes the rest of my life.
Sacred simplicity.”
~ Robert Fulghum
A book I haven’t yet read is Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. But I’ve read about it, and I believe that this is its premise…
In our busy working lives, we’ve lost the connection from start to finish. With no sense of beginning or ending, we’re trapped in a cycle of getting things done and horizon-less productivity. We swept up into the complexity of our organization and – quite frankly – it’s sapping us of life, meaning, purpose, happiness.
And if that’s not it, maybe I should write a book that tackles that very challenge.
It happens slyly, quietly. The complexity and distraction seeps in like moisture, the freezes and cracks the rock of concentration.
Even as I’ve been writing this post, I’ve found my attention grabbed by other things – email wanting to be checked, my to-do list waiting to be tweaked, up and down to pack my bag for a coming trip.
How do you connect with the bigger picture, so your tasks have purpose?
How can you break what you do down to tasks that begin and end?
How do you maintain your focus to begin and end a task?
- “Patience is also a form of action” (Great Work quote)
- “The willows submits to the wind and prospers until…” (Great Work quote)
- “… if the devil can’t get you to sin, he’ll …” (Great Work quote)
- “If you knew how much work went into it…” (Great Work quote)
- “Art is what we we’re doing when we do our best work” (Great Work quote)
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