Musings at Altitude

What’s the worst possible time for a dreamer?  It’s the extended time of doing that is always between the dreaming and the done.

If that time is clearly defined and well understood by the dreamer, and then each step provides clear affirmation of progress against plan, dreamers can live with that.  If the time instead is hard to predict and the pace of the doing gets bogged down in things that aren’t relevant to the achievement of the dream, then the dreamer gets frustrated beyond belief.

Dreamers love to be in small companies because the time of doing between dreaming and done is defined many times by the dreamer.  Dreamers struggle in bigger companies because the time of doing is more often than not defined by others whose job are to add things to the doing process that extend that time of doing to incredibly painful levels for the dreamers.

Since dreamers are typically not capable of focusing on the detailed steps of doing, any hope of creating and allowing urgency in the doing path falls squarely on those who typically don’t dream.

That’s not good.

Dreamers today need to become doers, and if not doers, at least participants in the doing process to ensure the maximum amount of doing occurs to minimize the time between dreaming and done.

That’s the only way to minimize the anxiety and maximize the hope that the dream will indeed lead to done.