All pervasive practicality.

Most of the time I think about practicality as being tied to a process or a decision. For instance, it is more practical to wash under one arm with the opposite hand. Or, as the ancient warriors found through trial and error, that the proper order is to conquer, have a good time, pillage, and then burn. Any other order doesn’t work as well. (Please excuse the silliness, but you get the idea...)

I like being practical. When I’m ready to do something I like to produce something that has value. Being practical is good. However, There is an infinite number of things to do and there is a large number of ways to get any one thing done. Which way is the best? Which way is the most practical?

The best and most practical way to get anything done is to participate in all pervasive practicality.

All pervasive practicality has to do with awareness. The greater your awareness, the better the chance you have at coming up with a practical solution to a problem. Here is an example:

Lets say you are flipping a house (completely remodeling it for sale) and the house needs lots of work. Normally the most practical way to get it done is to paint last. However, how about painting first. There would be no need to mask off trim and windows. You could get a big spray gun and then just stand in the center of the room and spray everywhere. Next, change out the windows and then paint the trim and last, put in the carpet. Yes there are holes in that process depending on the exact situation, but you get the idea. The use of greater awareness gets the job done and the net result is the same as the tried and true practical way.

If greater awareness is used in the decision making process, the result is better practicality.

You know the saying that if you teach people to fish other that to just give them fish, the problem of hunger is solved. (Or something like that.) Using all pervasive practicality through greater awareness is not fishy. It is simply much more efficient, let alone more practical. You no longer need to learn a whole bunch of practical ways to accomplish whatever. All you need is greater awareness.

All pervasive practicality is letting greater awareness permeate all your decision making processes. It is free of charge.

A blog entry on increasing your awareness is sometime in the future...

What do you think?

Sam