Thursday, September 20, 2012

Karma & The Big Picture

A friend who lives in Australia with a finance background used to refer to her Finance counterparts as Ant F^&#%'er's.  Sorry for the crudeness, but the saying and the wonderfully Australian way to capture the detail-level focus always makes me smile.  That particular description has burned itself into my brain and now I think of it automatically whenever I see incredible levels of focus on the minutiae.

By my own nature, I'm not 'social' with ants that way - I tend to be a big picture guy.  That's not a boast; in fact it's probably a weakness as I need to see the larger perspective to validate direction, speed and so on when I'm deep into a project, or working on a deliverable.

Lately, I've had my head down, and haven't been considering the big picture for a variety of reasons. I've been up to my neck in ants.  I came across this today by chance and it reset me nicely.

Call it whatever you want, I'll call it karma here.  Sometimes instead of getting wound up in whatever issues we have, it pays to stop, look up, and marvel with awe at the incredible situation we find ourselves in.  

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