Take Time for Living

Many years ago I decided to start a home-based business. One of my first stops, according to recommendations of the home business “gurus” of the day, was a trip to a local shop that made rubber stamps. I was told by my gurus that I needed a stamp with my business name and address to address envelopes and packages from my business.

That home-based business failed and I still have the stamp pad around here in a drawer somewhere.

Nowadays, with new technology in every home and office, I have no idea whether there’s much business for rubber stamps and such doing-it-by-hand packaging/mailing procedures. (“Nowadays” seems like an archaic term that ought to be followed by something like, “You young whippersnappers” — but I don’t even know what a “whippersnapper” is, really, do you?) It seems likely to me that our age of online office solutions and quick pickup and delivery services may have changed or eliminated a lot of stuff.

All of which is to say, as I ramble on: Life and work is rapidly, radically changing. If we are to “take time for living” as the title of this website suggests, we MUST really pay attention. We ought to be willing to embrace new technology as it is useful in our businesses and our everyday lives. At the same time, we must pay attention and learn to discriminate between real, valuable change and change just for the sake of doing something differently.

Embrace life all over again today!