The great playwright Edward Albee wrote in his play The Zoo Story, “Sometimes you’ve got to go a long way around to come back a short distance, correctly.”
That has, certainly, applied to me for much of my life, i.e., starting over.
However, one of my teachers recently pointed out to me that, “if by ‘around,’ you are thinking spherically, you’ve, literally, missed the point.”
Here is the point…
In a circle, you always come back to the same point…the beginning…the point of starting over. But, for real progress, he stressed, you have to think “spirally.”
A spiral brings you “around,” but not just to the starting point. It takes you to a new and higher level, then brings you around to an even newer and higher level…and on and on to newer and newer and higher and higher levels.
That’s how one creates progress and masters the art of living and one’s own life. It’s how one evolves.
So, it’s not about the circle of life, but the spiral of life.
I urge you to take some time to determine how you might upgrade to thinking spirally and take your life to newer and greater heights.
If you need some help, give me a call.