Alegna Consulting

In the current state of technology, all aspects of our lives and have been impacted to the point of everything we do is faster and our accessibility to information is easier.  This past week I had a chance to spend some quality time with my father and grandmother. The short amount of time spent with them allowed me to realize the need to get back to the basics in a couple areas of my life.  It is amazing how much we miss the opportunity of quality for the sake of wanting to do something quicker.  Due to our lack of patience and technological advancements, we live in a world of disposability.  We owe it to ourselves that in some aspect of our life to do something the “Old Fashioned Way” each week.  This is my challenge for the week. 

I often feel like we live in a very superficial place.  If we do not like our bodies, opposed to being patient and working out like the “Old Fashioned Way” we submit to surgery, disposing of our original body.  Technology enables us to desire; new cell phones every year for the sake of something better and dispose of the old one.  Let me discuss the lack of record stores.  Obtaining the music you listen to from the computer is just plain silly, in my opinion.  You miss opportunities to hear new and unique music because we often hear what is advertised which is based on finances.  Quality music is decreasing due the lack of patience.  Visit a record store the next time you are in New York, Chicago, D.C., Dallas or L.A. and retrieve some authentic music.  Visit the library, look for your own books on the shelves (do not reserve them on the internet).  Keep your brain fresh.  Omit microwave use; prepare your dinner on the stove.  We all know the benefits.  Be patient, have a 2 minute conversation with someone, skip texting.  Do not dispose your opportunity to speak.  This one will come as a surprise, relationships.  Be patient with your relationships and preserve them. No one is perfect and I mean no one is perfect.  Forgive.  Do not be so apt to dispose of a relationship.     

Doing some things the “Old Fashioned Way” has benefits.

Have a wonderful week!

Angela