Finding Your Pot of Gold

About 2 weeks ago, my son started carefully considering how to manage the challenge of catching a leprechaun. Now, he’s only 6 and still inhabiting a world of magical and fantastical thinking so I, of course, did not have the heart to tell him the truth about leprechauns – that they are very, very hard to catch.

Leprechauns are so elusive because they possess something of great value. If you are lucky enough to catch one you have a choice to make (and this is where my son began fretting). You can either take possession of the pot of gold that the leprechaun protects, or you can opt for the leprechaun to grant you a wish. Gold is a nice choice – and prudent in this economy – but a wish! That opens the door wide for even more than what money can buy.

So presented with seemingly endless possibility, my son decided that if should he catch a leprechaun, he would wish to catch another. Clever.

I don’t know if this is actually allowed, however. It is well known that when you release a genie from a lamp, you get three wishes that are tightly governed by specific Wish Rules of Engagement – including no wishing for more wishes. This may seem like a tricky CYA move on the part of genies and leprechauns (if they do indeed observe the same rules), but one would do well to recognize this as the proper gift of confrontation that it is: you must choose.

Have you ever wished for more time? Requested a deadline extension? Procrastinated or put off the inevitable in some other way? Not just me, then? OK, good. So you understand what I’m saying. At some point though, procrastination becomes the only action you take. Sadly, having more time - much less just wishing for it – doesn’t necessarily makes us more productive.

This is the secret truth about time management: you don’t need more time, you just need to make better choices about how you use what you’ve been granted. Time is a finite resource and everyone on this planet is allotted the same amount. The real time waster is failing to choose.

When you don’t author your own choice, you allow someone or something else to choose for you. Will you burn your hours thinking about how to be productive and imagining all the possible scenarios for success and failure or will you choose to act? Do you manage your day, or does your day manage you? What is that thing of great value that you are really after?

So what would you do if you caught a leprechaun?


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