An Embarrassing Scarcity of Time
Wednesday 05/13/2009 1:19 PM
 Photoshop artistic sponge rendering of a photo I took of black bird in the grass outside the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. (2009) File Under: I Took This Photo!; Panasonic DMC-LX1K Lumix Digital Camera; Photograph, Digital Manipulation/Composite; St. Petersburg, Florida |
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The short version:
“There are always more important contributions to be made than there is time available to make them.”
The long version:
There are always more important contributions to be made than there is time available to make them. Any analysis of contributions to be made comes up with an embarrassing richness of important tasks; any analysis of time discloses an embarrassing scarcity of time available for the work that really contributes. No matter how well you manage your time, the greater part of it will still not be your own. Therefore, there is always a time deficit.
No, that's not a mistake... I left the quotes off the second one because I slightly edited it and I don't want to be accused of maligning the words of the late, great Peter Drucker and his 1966 book The Effective Executive. All I did was remove any references to the word executive and changed them to the second person (“you”) so that the quote is simultaneously more direct and more broadly oriented (surely there are plenty of non-executives who can benefit from this wisdom).
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