On-By

ON-BY.

That is a command used by mushers given to their Huskies sled dogs. I recently read this in a nice relaxing book called The Letters by Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger whose family actually runs a sled-dog team. So there is a fair bit of the language and culture embedded in the story. It really touched a chord in me when I read the command On-By and understood it is used to make sure the dogs ignore whatever it is that is on the side of the road and continue to be focused on their goal. Not to be distracted by what happens on the side.

Isn't this maybe what we could do a little more of. Be focused on where we really want to go, what our ultimate end goal is , even only for the day. However if we do want to reach it, we need to be focused on where we are going and not allow ourselves to be distracted from it.

so On-By today to whatever is going to distract us from our goal. On-By this week, this month and maybe even longer than that to whatever is leading us away from our destination. Remain focused on your goals and you will reach your destiny!

ecoNOmy

So today was the day I was thinking about, (and reading a Washington Post full of info on Obama's speech and those of 210 other people) the fact that this current economic crisis can maybe be used to consider another perspective.
What if we throw it upside down and try to figure out "what's great about it?" Maybe what's great about it is that it will give us the opportunity to say NO to certain things in our lives that have been sucking our energy, maybe jobs where we really did not want to be. This could be a catharsis for us, allowing us to ask: where do you want to work? What do you really want to do? Now that you may have to re-focus what WILL you focus on?
You may have to say NO to extra things in your life. Time to evaluate. How necessary were those for you? did they really add to your life?

So think about the ecoNOmy in a different way!