If I had to give only one piece of advice in project management, it would be this: get to the point!!!

This “essential” advice 😊 is not circumscribed by the way to the only sphere of digital project management; we could very well, apply it to the whole sphere of human life as well as individual and collective.

But what is essential? It’s quite simple in fact, it’s what is most important to do, to say, to think, to feel in the present moment. This might seem paradoxical for an entrepreneur, a project manager, parents of young children, a couple planning their vacations or their wedding because everything seems to push us to anticipate the future, to be forward-looking, and therefore to escape the present moment to get better governance of our life.

But when we anticipate the future are we really in the future? I don’t think so, because as Saint Augustine rightly said in Confessions book X:

“Then what becomes evident and clear is that the future and the past are not real; and rigorously, we cannot admit these three times, past, present, and future; but perhaps we can say with truth, there are three times, the present of the past, the present of the present and the present of the future. (…) The present of the past is the memory, the present of the present is the present attention, the present of the future is its expectation.”

So coming back to the present moment is remembering the past while paying attention to the present and what is coming, add to that an ounce of intuition, of vision and you will be sure never to miss the essential.