Babies soon learn that noticing things and acting in direct response is what gets results. As adults, those of us who keep these two basic principles alive and active are the ones best equipped to go with the flow in life and make some advancing steps come what may.

If you’ve ever seen a potter at work you will notice that he pays very careful
attention to what happens to the clay on his wheel, you may have also noticed that
when maleable clay is spinning at a steady speed the slightest adjustment can have
dramatic results.

We’re pretty clay-like too, we are maleable and we are in motion and a careful
adjustment will have results on our future shape and usefulness in a very similar
way.

If a potter throws a lump of clay on the wheel, plays around with it for a while and
then walks away and turns his attention to other things, will he come back to a
finished pot? In short, no. It’s just not going to happen. He needs to be there, to pay
attention and take action, to observe, to feel, to consider and then to do what he
believes to be the best active response to bring that pot into being.

We have a choice - we can live by design or by default. In living experience, that
means the profound difference between being an unformed entity at the hands of
others, the elements, the weather, whoever and whatever, as we sit and spin inert
and unattended on the wheel of life. Alternatively, we might be a wonderful pot in
progress, shaped by care and attention to become ever more elegant, ever more
useful, and ever more suited to our chosen purpose.

It’s never too late to start, it’s never to late to change, to pick yourself up and dust
yourself down, try something new, learn something new, do something different.
And remember that all it takes is to pay yourself some real and valid attention and
then to make small adjustments in direct response - that’s all. That and to keep it
going, keep noticing, keep adjusting and know that all else will follow as night
follows day.