Every Day
by Tom Furman
The idea of doing something regularly to achieve success is often frowned upon. Most advertising taps into our need for quick pleasure. It’s like offering magic, yet the information inundated consumer is willing to purchase smoke and mirrors before reality. The reality is that short cuts do not exist. However short term actions lead to long term success or what appears to be magic.
“I’m not doing the time. The time is doing me.” — Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth) in the movie, Blackhat
While many say that, “Time is Money”, few view it as currency. Like money, we always think we don’t get enough. However when an objective analysis comes into play, we may find that our organizational skills are more emotionally driven than logically driven. That is not to say that humans should be worker drones or mindless task masters. It means that by having a consistent group of habits or tasks, given time, the outcome is quite demonstrable.
The application of a simple daily habit was made vivid in a largely unknown TV movie from the eighties, “Two Father’s Vengeance”. It starred Robert Conrad as a retired steelworker from the south side of Chicago and George Hamilton as a high end executive. The story is basically that after the murder of their children and not getting adequate justice, the fathers go after the killers. There is a telling scene in which the actors are running together and Robert Conrad’s character is getting tired. He wonders how George Hamilton’s character, who is not a tough guy like him, is able to continue. Hamilton’s character replies, “While you were holding court on a bar stool drinking beer all those years, I was running three miles every morning.”
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