Hindsight and Tunnel Vision

My brain is moving at warp speed these days.

Part of the reason is (putting it mildly) due to the mind-numbing experience I am having on Seth Godin's Triiibes community site . . . Fabulous stuff!

Is hind-sight "all that"?

Some say that it's 20/20 - Perfect vision - and therefore has little real value becuase it's too late.

It doesn't do a lot for one's psyche/ego to look back on things and say: "AW SH_T! I coulda . . . or if only I had . . . "

Yet, we all know (as I learned early in career as a "leader" in the Army) that there are lessons to be learned through an intentional look back in the form of an AAR - After Action Review . . . so that we can move forward with confidence and know what to do in the future.

Yes - and folks say that "History repeats itself" and that we can study historical trends and be able to be more RESPONSIVE and less reactionary going forward.

I believe that there are those folks out there who get hung up on the hindsight thing . . . Don't hash and rehash ad nausium . . . Do as we did in the Army . . . Review - Assess - Adjust - Move FORWARD!

IN my days in the army, we talked in terms of "range walking". . . This is a VERY focused and Intentional way of walking with 100% FOCUS on everything within perception . . . moving with quickness while adjusting for terrain obstacles and maintaining an almost hyper-focus on the surroundings so as to be able to respond to lurking issues. Once I 'Got" this technique, I could literally range walk faster than I could run for long distances.

In steps "Tunnel-vision" . . .

Do you ever find yourself cruising along "doing" . . . perhaps in a "flow moment" . . . and next thing you know, the day is over and you forgot to eat, sleep etc . . . and others around you comment that you had pure tunnel vision as if nothing else existed?

Is this a good thing?

With that level of focus, do we miss opportunities?

I coach a lot of people into FOCUS because I know that focus on a goal/vision yields results . . . and most of the folks I coach have very random and unfocused habits when they come to me.

I'm wondering if I might better serve these "coachees" by teaching them to "range walk" . . .and stop at appropriate "way-points" to review and refresh and realign before moving forward.

Seth Godin Blogged a post a couple of weeks ago in his amazingly pithy way . . . The message was clear:

- Those who REACT have great difficulty moving forward
- The RESPONDERS do better

and many gurus talk a lot about Responding and not reacting

- Those who INITIATE constantly are the ones moving forward ALWAYS

In the terms in this blog post, the initiators are range walking :-)

Best,

b
Barry Owen
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