Inconvenience

I believe the posting on blackboard about inconvenience is true. The argument is that those who succeed are those who work even when it's not convenient. I'd say it's related to the principle of opposition in all things. Those who achieve the most, grow the most, become the best are those who work hard even when it's not convenient.

I think that the word inconvenience was an understatement for what the writer was talking about. I think the word trials, set backs, or adversity is more appropriate. Semantics aside he's right. As I read this I remembered something Covey mentioned when he was here. As sort of a side note he said that at one point when he had three mortgages on his house he wondered if he was ever going to make it or not. Obviously he did but the fact that he had three mortgages on his house shows he was really struggling.

Just today I was leaving the plasma center and I saw a quote from Elder Russel M. Nelson he said that said that he and his wife didn't have enough money so she started donating her blood for extra money. He said he was proud of her for paying tithing on her blood money. As someone who has donated a substantial amount of plasma and blood I can tell you that it's not convenient at all. Elder Nelson and his wife were certainly blessed he went on to become a world renowned heart sergeant.

Even once people have become very successful they're still confronted with inconvenience and adversity all the time. They remain successful because they work through it. Ironically many people consider them to be lucky. Most people fail to realize that the little choices they make everyday to postpone something or forget it entirely are what keeps them from achieving lasting success.

Optimize the Whole

In order to see the reason for the principle of optimizing the whole we have to exept the fact that most resources are limited. Many times because we know resources are limited we want to be the first to use them ie musical chairs.

Remember what happened in musical chairs? When we acted on our basic impulse to take we eliminated one another from completing the goal. However, when we thought of the needs of the group we devised a system that enabled all of us to succeed.

An example of a limited resource is time. Specifically time of people. In class Brother Adams used the example of President Clark. In our case it's Brother Adams' time that's limited. Hence the need for us to schedule appointments outside of class for additional questions that I'm sure we all have about our individual assignments.

BradAAdams: Peer-to-Peer: How Organizations Hear!

BradAAdams: Peer-to-Peer: How Organizations Hear!