“No man lives long without food of the spirit.”
— Ervin Seale
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Sumati and I have been watching “The Bear” on the telly.
Seen it?
It’s well worthwhile.
It’s about a young chef with a dysfunctional kitchen crew and his hopes and dreams for creating the best food and hospitality he can.
At one of the kitchens he trains at, the words “Make Every Second Count” is in big letters under the clock.
In the beginning, everyone (meaning I) assumes that this means to pack as much action into each and every moment as possible.
No wasted moments. No messing around. No dilly dallying.
Fill the moment with productivity. Efficiency. Get things done.
But the genius of that particular episode is that it becomes clear that Make Every Second Count is about filling the moment with the right things.
We meet the head chef of this three starred restaurant, and she’s peeling mushrooms.
Why?
Because it’s about respect. It’s about the details. It’s about letting the customers know that whoever made the food, cares.
No wasted moments.
It isn’t just about getting things done.
It’s about filling the moment with love.
It’s about noticing and celebrating the details.
It’s about something deeper than doing and productivity –
It’s about the spirit that goes into the doing.
And that’s what truly matters, that’s what truly comes across for you and for them.
But –
We hold getting things done far more valuable than spirit.
That’s why the world is a mess. It’s why people are struggling and suffering. Why anxiety and confusion and fear are at an all time high.
It’s why there’s this search for real meaning and purpose, for what matters, for that something more that’s in the question, “there’s got to be more to life than this”.
We forgot that on the way to our consumer dream, nothing matters more than your soul.
The substance behind all of it.
I quoted the following in my book, Chasing More and Finding Enough (good book that one!), but I think they are well worth a revisit:
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“People don’t talk about the soul very much anymore. It’s so much easier to write a résumé than to craft a spirit. But a résumé is cold comfort on a winter night, or when you’re sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you’ve gotten back the chest X ray and it doesn’t look so good, or when the doctor writes “prognosis, poor” ... You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
— Anna Quindlen, author
“We all think some external accomplishment is going to change everything, but it never seems to. It doesn’t change how you see yourself, it doesn’t change how you go through the world, it doesn’t change what you feel like when you wake up in the morning.”
“What you must do instead is realize that what you have been doing is not the problem, it’s the why. You thought that doing important or impressive work will make you happy. This was precisely wrong. It’s that being happy will help us do important and impressive work, quite possibly better and more pure work. “
— Ryan Holiday, author
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So.
Make Every Second Count.
Go well!
Arjuna
PS.
And if you want one of these two one-one coaching/mentoring spots that I’m opening up …
Let me know if you’re even vaguely interested and we can chat details.
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