Our progress bar
My friend, Chuck Pell, posted this update on Facebook today –
When we’re born, we’re handed a ~75-year progress bar. In reality, our progress bar is an unknown percentage. At any moment, you could be at 25%, 50% – or 99.9%
None of us has a clue where our progress bar is at the moment. We could be 20 years old or 70 years old, but that figure doesn’t provide any indication of how close we are to our life’s end. When our progress bar hits 100%, what will we be doing? Will we be updating yet another Powerpoint chart for a Senior VP of a conglomerate who can’t make up his mind? Will we be mindlessly pushing a cart filled with industrial grade alcohol in a dead-end laborer’s job? Will we be picking up the phone for the 200th time to try to sell online advertising to someone who doesn’t want to be sold to? (for the record, I’ve worked all these jobs as an adult!) Or will we be pursuing something meaningful and important to us? What’s stopping us from doing it if we aren’t already following the path that makes us happiest? Our progress bar may be shorter than we think it is, so let’s make sure that we’re doing something that matters to us when it does reach the end.