It’s too bad that some posters have, obviously, stumbled onto the wrong forum for their views, however, laudable. Although, it’s important to strike a balance between keeping our focus not only on ourselves and our lives – but the lives of others, I believe that Productivity501 has as its goal to assist us in whatever goals we might have.

To illustrate, take the example of social responsibility. NOT using this principle, we could be busy setting tables to serve the homeless, assisting any that needed it in getting seated, giving them an encouraging talk, discussing ideas among ourselves for increasing space so that more could be served at a later date. BUT just as we could be congratulating ourselves on the speed that we accomplished all of these tasks and everyone had readied themselves to eat, we could be brought up short by the fact that we never ordered the food. In this case, as in others, doing the right thing at the right time can be crucial. Ordering the food to arrive the next day and arranging for the time it should arrive should have been the first task completed before the others were even considered.

So whatever we choose to do in life, I’m confident, that your writing this article to reinforce this principle was a very productive use of your time and reading this article was a very productive use of our time. Thanks again, Mark!

Thanks for your comment.

@Damsel – I didn’t mean to imply that she was going to take the monetary value of the cigarettes she picked up and put it in a bank account. :)

(By the way, I didn’t mean this to be too critical – I can appreciate the pressure to blog something – anything – regularly. Keep it up, I couldn’t do it. There average quality is enough to keep me visiting regularly.)