Analysis (Jan. 28)

In an economic climate like the one that exists today, businesses and people in general seek some sort of hope in the analysis of what is to come. But analysis in and of itself is not a tool of certainty. Analysis is simply looking at the past and the hopes of being able to predict to the future. The hope is that with a complete set of data that this process of stretching the mind to encompass a set of numbers will come to some sort of conclusion. The reality is that a complete set of data is hard to come by. There will always be stray data that does not fit the set and there will be more than one way that a conclusion can be made. And yet numbers of people sit in an office somewhere and continue to crunch the data. There are situations everyday that almost force every member of society to do just the same on a personal level. There are those who spend way too much time going through this process which keeps them from acting. Sometimes it is not about the data and not about trying to predict what will happen as much as it is taking action.