Reorganise

There is a method of operating in life that roughly goes as follows.

You will do something a particular way because it is what you are used to. This will happen until someone comes along or something happens that challenges how you do what you do. If an alternative is presented that gets you a better result and is worth the cost of a different approach, more likely than not, you will will adapt to the alternative. You have no reason to change unless the reward of the outcome far outweighs the cost of the change to the method.

My wife loves coffee in the morning. She likes a good cup of coffee. She knows what a good coffee tastes like. Method number one saw me put a certain amount of coffee in the cup, then a certain amount of sugar, before applying the water and then putting in a certain amount of a certain type of milk in the cup. She was then introduced to a different type of milk and invited me to consider a different amount of coffee (less if you must know). The milk thing was a little inconvenient in terms of getting it as well as adding it. Overall, however, the delight and raised level of enjoyment that it brought my wife made the inconvenience worthwhile.

It takes a person or an incident to challenge the methods. In the light of the challenge if we acknowledge there’s a change required, then we reorganise.

There are plenty of areas in life that faces those challenges, but we are not always in a position to make those changes. Opportunities will arise, however, to make those changes slowly but surely. For in the reorganising this is not about change for the sake of change. This is about change in the light of seeing a greater reward from paying the price of doing things differently.

Just thinking out loud … just in case … you know … there are things that are about to be reorganised.

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden