Sometimes looking down is the best thing to do

I was listening to a CD in the car last night on the way home from work. The speaker was talking about vision, ie. goals – have a clearly defined goal, a dream with a deadline. A plan of what you want to do and when you want it done by.

I am all for this. Have a plan. Have a goal. They are worthwhile things to do. Have a vision (because with out one, according to Proverbs, us, our businesses etc will all perish).

Sometimes though we think too much about the future at the expense of what is happening today.

I read a story today on the BBC website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4793625.stm) about a drainage engineer who found a hoard of MoD (Ministry of Defence) documents at the side of the road.

As I read the story I was reminded of the chap who owned a farm and one day decided to sell his land and use the money to go and mine diamonds. After a few years, all the money had disappeared and not a diamond in site.

The guy who purchased his farm though was one day walking through his fields and he stopped by a stream that ran through his property. As he sat down he noticed something in the water…a diamond.

He found what was to become the start of one of the world’s largest diamond mines.

I love looking and planning towards the future. But perhaps our futures could be determined by what is right under our noses. We never know what we might find here, in today.

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."
Mark Twain