During my Saturday Vinyasa class my teacher and favorite yogi, Josh Schrei, said, “now bend at the hips, the way we bent before humans starting wearing pants.”  Luckily Josh isn’t bothered by his students when they get a fit of giggles at the image of everyone walking around without pants. It makes sense, right? We bend MUCH more naturally at the hips where our bodies actually hinge, but our pants stop at our waist so that’s where we do our bending.

Where else have great advances(I do think pants are a great advance) caused unintended consequences? Using money instead of bartering? Families living in their own separate houses? Refrigeration? Not sharing the living room with our livestock? Using a billing contractor rather than doing our billing in house? Storing our documentation in a cloud rather than in hundreds of binders? Google and Amazon knowing more about my daily habits than my mother?

Josh helped me find the right question. What am I doing on a regular basis that’s having unintended consequences. Now I can move past question #10 in Alan Webber’s book, put on my pants, and get to work.

I’ll report back.