On my morning two-mile walk, there are two dogs who are quite obsessive. You can tell even if they aren’t outside, because they have dug gentle ruts into their yards with repeated running back and forth along the same path.
It seems to me that most people want to have a bigger impact on the world. Through their actions, their choices, their advocacy – they want to change the world around them for the better.
We’d all do to take a lesson from these two dogs. Dogs who aren’t obsessive – who run all over their yards – can live an entire lifetime without meaningfully changing the shape of their yard. The obsessive dogs are the ones who have an impact on their landscape.
In the same way, if we want to have an impact on our landscape, we need to be a little bit obsessive about the work we do. We need to focus it and repeat it.