back for my morning fix. What else would I do???

As I climbed into bed last night my wife wanted me to tell her what made me stop reading the Tent last night. I told her I couldn’t tell her, the implications and obvious conclusions were too overwhelming.

In my working life, I used to deal in wading through tons of info to get to the crux of the matter at hand. Also known as executive consulting. We helped open executives eyes to the linchpin of the obstacles that were preventing them from accomplishing their goals. Often when we got to the “answer” they would say “but we already knew that.”

We’d say, “but you never identified it or figured it out.” One CEO thanked us for opening his eyes to the fact that he needed to share his thinking with his executive team…”You made me realize that my guys could not know what I was thinking unless I told them. I used to wonder why they could not read my mind.” And he was the top buy of a billion dollar company.

The process we used to get to that linchpin – which usually involved nailing down the value the company created for its customers – involved extensive interviews, collecting tons of data, then sifting through it all on a white board to determine the connections, and how they worked (or were supposed to work) to create value. Along the we would also be able to identify obstacles or hurdles in the organization that prevented them from achieving greatness.

I said to the wife last night, “I need a big white board to sort this all out. There are too many pieces floating around that I cannot connect all the dots to make sense of what’s going on. Putting on a white board would help crystallize the larger whole, and the center of the forces driving all of this.”

It would make for an interesting – and likely productive – exercise. It would help greatly to remove what’s in the mind to a visual reference on a white board.

I likely won’t do that as I have become a rusty old fart, but just thinking about it helped me realize that a large part of the angst I felt last night is that there are too many pieces of this puzzle that overwhelm by not being connected. That in and of itself helps – knowing the “why” behind the feeling that overcame me.

Now I’m going to read Coffee and Covid while sipping on my iced coffee, and then play some fun pickle ball for a couple of hours. And then my wife and I are going shopping to start our stocking up with food for the coming shortages. Because it is coming, sure as rain in Florida.

Enjoy your day, gang. Keep the faith, keep encouraging one another, be ready for what we know is coming, stack silver and gold, speak truth into the lies as best you can.