Getting Stuff Done & Other Universal Truths!

Lord Paul Adam Mudd
Thrive Global
Published in
5 min readNov 22, 2017

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“…And throw my dreams out in the street and the rain make ’em grow”, Tom Waits

I’ve been quiet for a while on @medium which is so unlike me, but I’ve been getting stuff done — What does that really mean though?

Stuff

Stuff’s a rather big word for just 5 letters — It’s a catch-all — A mighty mighty basket, laden with potential, opportunity and so much else.

Stuff is where many of my ideas start-out — Emerging from wherever they come from whilst I’m getting other stuff done — And then like one of the 3 Princes of Serendip, I have my moments of serendipity as I go in search of I know not what before finding it.

To sleep, perchance to dream is not for me for mine is in the doing and like Winnie-The-Pooh, “I am not lost for I know where I am. But where I am may be lost”.

Age of Great Acceleration

Without doubt in this Age of Great Acceleration, we are busier with excessive busy-ness and blinder than we think.

It’s a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world, with the boundaries between so many things in work and daily life acutely blurred and more than a tad confused.

But as I’ve said before I am one of nature’s Active Seekers After Meaning.

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Lord Paul Adam Mudd
Thrive Global

A Lord (Apparently) | Leadership Rockstar (Allegedly) | Philosopher Pirate (Probably) | & Best Selling Author + Writer Huff Post | Thrive Global | Medium (Yes)