A Penny Will Hide The Biggest Star In The Universe If You Hold It Close Enough To Your Eye
“A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.” – Samuel Grafton
The item of smallest value, of no consequence, something you will not bend over to pick up, can still end up blinding you to the largest, most magnificent of thoughts if it is taking up your mind space.
I am guilty of this all the time, of letting myself get distracted simply because the big picture is obscured, not immediately in front of me. Instead there are time wasters, irrelevant emails, excessive TV, trivia, chatter and a million other things that take the attention away from what my end goal really is.
I don’t mean to say any of those things are wrong, just that they need to be kept in their place and in their time.
What pennies are obscuring your view of the heavens?
p.s. Thanks to Stephen Covey for his list of ‘not important/not urgent’ activities as discussed in ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’.
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