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June 28, 2005
Serendipity
Serendipity is the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for. In the book “The Road Less Traveled,” M. Scott Peck, M.D. says that it happens to everyone, but not everyone recognizes it or takes advantage of it. Either we are not fully aware of it’s presence or we don’t appreciate the value of it. If these events are happening to us all of the time, how many have we let slip by? There is no way of knowing, but we can learn to watch for these events and learn to see the value in our encounters.
Tonight I had a very good meeting with a couple of friends that helped me clarify my thoughts and set goals for me to work on. That’s not what we were meeting about at all, but by the time we were done I had an outline of tasks that I had to take care of, which I was planning on doing in the next two weeks anyway. But now I have focus and more concrete ideas. I didn’t call the meeting. I didn’t expect this outcome. But I appreciated the gift that will help me be more effective.
Posted by carl1236 at June 28, 2005 10:39 PM | Attitude