Sunday, March 25, 2007

Into Focus

Things have been a little busy lately. I've been working, working, and working more. Between two jobs and innumerable attempts at "business", I've got my hands full on the professional side of things. Then there's home. My two-year-old needs time with his daddy. The new baby needs time with her daddy too. My wife deserves time with her husband.

I've found it difficult to juggle all this, but not impossible. I think the key for me personally has been to not let myself get too scattered. The more focused I am, the less overwhelming everything is. Seeing the "big picture" isn't so much having "grand vision" as it is being able to see each piece of the puzzle in focus--one piece at a time.

Sometimes we get caught up in the "whole", while the only thing necessary is to focus on the "part" that is before us currently. Right now, this moment, this screen, this word... bringing one thing into focus, in the end, is often far more beneficial than seeing the whole picture in a blur.

Nature, Removed