Most of the time the thing that truly holds us back is ourselves. To move forward, onward and upward we need to be willing to not just do new things, but to stop doing old things. We need to be willing to let go….Â
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. — Charles Du Bos
 Kirk Out
Now here are a couple of thought leaders I would have never imagined linking together.
 
At the ITSMF USA conference in Dallas last week a young man and I were talking about “stuff”, and the time we spend doing it, pursuing it and paying for it.  Into our conversation I threw this quote from one my friends overseas… ”Day in and day out what we do is what we become.”  He then responded with a quote that sounded like something I had heard Dr. Stephen Covey say and said as much. He said, no…not Stephen Covey…Stephen King!!
The quote from King was paraphrased …but essentially said…. “No one on their deathbed will wish they had spent more time instant messaging or on facebook.”Â
The original Covey quote is similar…”No one on their deathbed will wish they had spent more time at the office.”
Absolutely worthwhile is the entire artcile written by Stephen King called, “My Screen Addiction“Â http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20293300,00.htmlÂ
Covey also taught… “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.”
 I know I would never want my children to respond to the question “Where’s your Dad?” with …. “He’s always on his computer.“ It may be time for me, and perhaps you to courageously do what Stephen King did and see if we need to make a choice and make a change.
Kirk Out
