sweating the small stuff

i was explaining to my colleague that now she had been promoted to a manager, she had to step away from the small things that used to concern her, to start looking at the bigger picture - there were just as many things to do and to worry about, but the priorities would change.

of course, small details were still important, but now, overall strategy and direction would take on much greater importance, and often, at the expense of other things, the day-to-day operations, and we had to, to a large extent, place our faith in others we had hired to do their jobs. we need to check on them from time to time, but we really have to be spending our time on "higher level" things.

a bit like any journey of spiritual progress. a lot of people are very satisfied at the material level, once in a while, they yearn for something a bit more, but we'd rather pre-occupy ourselves with day-to-day real things of the world.

if i'm serious about another level (it's probably neither up nor down - just different), i have to spend my time on self-reflection, at the expense of things at the material level.

i have to stop sweating the small stuff.