Do Short Cuts Work? - Use Your Ingenuity To Get Through LifeFind your own way Do short cuts work? Can I avoid all the hard graft and still get to my goal? Can I miss out on those steps and still make it? Can I put in half the effort and still achieve that hard, difficult and time consuming goal? Perhaps you can if you are really good at something. But most of the time . . . There is another side to short cuts is there not? That is having the experience and the elevation to be able to see the wood for the trees. Seeing is one thing, observation another. Looking one thing, assessment and evaluation another. Guessing is one thing, working things out quite another. Life gives us many opportunities to shine - for ourselves. Take up just some of these and you will gain the chance to find the real you. To blossom and evolve. And are there short cuts involved? Occasionally, but often it is down to persistence and dedication. To keeping going when the times get tougher, and not free wheeling too much when the times are easy and smooth. We can learn from others and not make the same mistakes. We can learn from our past and avoid similar howlers. We can consult the manual when we take on an appropriate task. But we will know that life itself has not provided a manual. We have had our childhood and our formative years. And now we are on our own. But we are moving on, making the best of things and more. Dealing with difficulties. Excelling here, moderate there, poor occasionally. Do short cuts work - or just a part of life's rich tapestry? If we can learn a few things and pass them onto others, our children, then our time will not have been wasted. But what we glean ourselves is important most of all. And will help us to move into the future with confidence and motivation to explore and discover more of the life we have in our hands. An exciting journey awaits us. All best, |