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Recently, I presented my first workshop on the contents of this book, Organizational Evolution. I spoke of the current economic situation, which is anything but pretty. I reflected on the supporting verbiage from my previous book with an emphasis on:

1. Keeping focused on the future… this probably won’t matter in five years!
2. I quoted my friend Leo Broline who always asked people who seemed overstressed “why they had decided to die all tensed up?” I remind my audiences that they really don’t know if they’ll live just one more day or 100 more years. Be sure that you are enjoying the ride.
3. A family friend reminds us that “none of us will be getting out of this situation alive.” So, are you focused on the right things, living life as you should?
4. Stephen Covey speaks of a “eulogy exercise.” The purpose is to imagine, if you were to die today, what would be said about you in your eulogy? Would it include all those things you hope to do in life? The answer is overwhelmingly the same each time… ‘no.’

I choked up a bit as I shared a “perspective” story. I’ve told this one before, but for some reason this time was different. Perhaps it was influenced by a broader perspective I have acquired since my mother shared my great-grandmother’s last letter, to her children, written in 1945, just weeks before she passed away. She shared that she was ok, that she was sorry they were all in such a horrible situation, that she loved them all very much and hoped they’d soon be returned to a more normal life.

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