Dear Friend, Lately I've noticed that you and I are both so busy attending to the merely urgent that we have no time for the truly important. We all seem to be plunging headlong into the future without so much as a road map sketched on the back of a paper napkin. Although I know that we need to consider the future, I also know that those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. While technology is changing exponentially, the hearts of the people aren't changing at all. We're still the same predictable creatures we've always been.
Human nature seems subject to certain laws of the universe that are impervious to change.
I believe that a knowledge of these laws is the secret to finding yourself in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way. If you will agree to pause for just 15 minutes a month to think about your potential your future, I'll write and send you a monthly electronic memo about the timeless truths on which I have come to depend. At the end of one year, you will have spent more than three hours viewing the blurry, unknowable future through the sharp, bright lens of the past. That's exactly three hours more than any of your friends or family are likely to invest in thinking, learning and planning. Like you and me, they are simply too busy to plan.