Taking Inventory… Sailing Adventure… Jan 7th, Here We Come…

December 20, 2011

Time is ticking and it is getting close to the start of our big adventure.  If you’re not aware of the big sailing adventure, I’ll fill you in.  My wife and I are taking our 3 boys out of school for 8 months so that we can sail around the Eastern Caribbean.  Very exciting!  This has been in the works for quite a while and we’re so excited.

A large portion of the fun of this adventure has been the planning, as it is with so many things.  And, the nice part of this was that it fit so nicely with one of my mantras… you’ve got to take inventory.  If you don’t have a good sense of where you are and what you’ve got, it’s going to be a lot harder to get where you want and need to go.  Every step of the way along our journey to getting to this point has involved some element of taking inventory.  Whether it’s figuring out what we physically need to buy or acquire, or perhaps some additional knowledge or training that we need, we knew what it was that we needed by having done inventory.  All this helped us to be ready to make it happen.

Now that our adventure is about to start, we will continue to do inventory.  We need to know what equipment needs to be replaced, or what supplies might need to be replenished.  The same is true with our businesses, our personal and professional lives.

So, keep taking inventory and keep pushing to make your plans come true… whether it’s sailing, building a business, nurturing a family, or just living the dream.  And, then, make it happen.  For us the adventure down south starts January 7th.  More news to follow.


It’s Not The Destination, It’s Not the Journey, It’s a…

August 31, 2010

Everyone has likely heard of the saying, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”  And, most of us if not all of us would agree that there is truth to that saying.  In fact, if one agrees with the concept that that which is repeated is often right, then this is quite right.  But, I was recently introduced to an idea that I think may have more merit.

Let’s start with the concept that “it is not the destination”.  Most of us would agree because it, in this case let’s say life, should be about just the destination.  We can intuitively agree that the journey must also be important.

The one weak link in this theory is that the destination or one’s goals does have value and importance and if we say that the value is only in the journey then we negate the value of accomplishing and attaining our goals. 

So, what if we combined the two concepts into one simple new mantra, “It’s not about the destination, it’s not the journey, it’s a journey of destinations.” 

A journey of destinations… isn’t that so much better?  And, that’s what everything really is about.  Life, business, organizational development, friendships, even love.  It’s a series of discrete experiences, goals accomplished, steps taken.  Just like a line is a series of dots, so is life a series of events.

What do you think?


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