There is too much noise!
It’s loud! It’s screeching and clanging!
I can’t hear.
I can’t think.
The noise is burying me in rubble and excrement!
What is it! It just keeps on-and-on like ululating jackals!
It’s information…worthless unrelenting input.
There is so much information out there, it keeps pouring out, drowning all of us. We have trouble focusing on what’s important. The information noise drowns out our ability to focus, to listen and to spend our valuable time on what really supports our values, our dreams and our intentions.
Example:
Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube. YouTube creates so much noise…100 hours of new video every minute of every hour of every day—if you spent 12 hours a day doing nothing but watching YouTube, it would take you approximately 12,000 years to watch what is uploaded just in 2014.
You don’t have that much time. Maybe a 100 years, not 12,000.
Then, there still is email to answer, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Blogs, Tumblr, Yelp, Flickr. Oh yea, you have to eat and make your bed and brush your teeth. Some of us have to go to work. There is a life to live. And achievements to achieve! Right.
I do want you to read this blog, but you won’t. You don’t have time! (sorry, you are reading this blog…this time at least)
tl;dr
Too long;Didn’t read
Not having enough time to read or look at information is so pervasive that the internet slang expression for no time and not enough interest is becoming one of the most commonly used memes in discussion forums—tl;dr…Too long Didn’t read.
Here’s is the crux of the matter:
Time is too limited to do justice to everything. You have to choose.
Whenever you choose to spend your time on one thing…you choose not to do everything or anything else.
If you choose to watch TV, you choose not to work on your Nobel Prize. If you choose to surf YouTube, you choose not to exercise or spend time with your family.
As Malcolm Gladwell taught us in his seminal book, Outliers published in 2008,
“ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything.”
If you aren’t putting in your 10,000 hours on what it is you want to master and instead watching TV, there’s a good chance you aren’t going to be a world-class expert. But, it is your choice.
I need to cut this short…..tl;dr hurts me. I don’t want to be “tl” so you “dr”.
Vital Leadership does want and prays for you to become who you were meant to become.
Achieving that blessing requires being deliberate and intentional to use your time wisely. To focus. To set and work on goals. To draw out your full potential. We must be aware and conscious to not put negative, hurtful things in our heads and bodies, and start putting in that information and nourishment that edifies. Some things shouldn’t be in the “tl;dr” category. You can choose. You can Live for your passions, gifts and talents that are unique to you.