Watching all the cars go by

I just got back from a lovely long lunch with a good friend. Wonderful Japanese restaurant on the King Street Wharf in Sydney. Great food and after the obligatory Sake and the glass or two of Sauvignon blanc, as you do…

Sitting in a wee cafe in Dee Why waiting for the house to clear - some buyers going through tonight - pondering the day and the goings on around me.

Cars zooming down Pittwater Road incessantly; busy, busy, busy.

Where is the time in life now? Time for reflection, time for family, time for friends and time to just enjoy whatever you want to do. Now I am going to sound old, but growing up, there seemed to be all the time in the world for these things - not so now.

Do we ever stop to examine all the things we add into our life and their value and currency? If our life was a wardrobe we would at least change it each season, weed out the old clothes and put in the new seasons favourites.

Somehow we get caught up in yesterdays clothes trying to fit more and more into every minute of the day with scant regard to the value or impact on those around us. Lip service to what we say we know is good and right but no real vision or strategy evident; objectives even less so.

Interesting how so much is written about business strategy and planning when we seldom even think about planning to get the best out of the most valuable things we have - our life and relationships - finite and yet infinite in value as neither can be bought or sold.

What is the answer? Less haste, more speed perhaps?

And still the cars zoom by… busy, busy, busy…