Clarity

# Chapter 135

“Clarity, tells you where you’re headed” - Mark Sanborn

Persistence is an amazing gift that it just keeps giving . . . if you have the clarity to be going in the right direction. Without said clarity, you just may be persistently wrong. Or obnoxious. Or evil. Or selfish. Or small.

Clarity can represent a number of things, like clear-headedness, or insight, or foresight. On the other hand, it could be puzzle-resolution or the simplification of complexity. Clarity makes the right direction apparent. Clarity sheds light on the darkness of confusion. Clarity straightens the tracks of misalignment.

The winter season has arrived unfortunately and I so miss the warmth of the other seasons. The worst part of winter is that it forces me inside, no more long rides on the bicycle until the temps reach the 40’s again. Instead, all I can do is ride the trainer. A contraption I hook my bicycle up to during the winter months, and I can sweat some and get some exercise, but I don’t go anywhere.

That would be an apt metaphor of our lives without clarity - lots of effort and sweat and grunting and action, but no progress. Action does not equal progress, any more than busyness equals accomplishment. Clarity is understanding and knowledge that you know where you are heading, that the target is recognized, and that in turn quantifies every event, bump, incline, curve and pothole that you face along the way. This is the synergy of clarity - that all these progress markers are simply confirmation that you are moving in the right direction.

Clarity is probably the most underrated value in the entire world.