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Waiting until the last minute to do something important puts you at the mercy of several things and we should know better.
Our ability to walk away is greatly reduced.
Not being able to (or refusing to) walk away is a recipe for disappointment.
It will cost too much.
Choices are severely limited or none existent.
We are tempted to use poor judgement to compensate for our emotional sense of urgency.
Long shot: the harder we work, the luckier we get.
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Most people want to be spoon fed. I get that, and appreciate my own fair share of “just tell me what to do”. But this is not the place for that. Short and pithy has it’s place. Here. Nearing 6k posts, without wavering. Ever wonder why? How?
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PS. Ever wonder why, how, for yourself? This is deceptively important.
We stop learning because, well, we stop trying to learn. Getting an MBA sounds like a good idea – on paper. But for what? A promise that it will catapult your career? Seriously? Look around at people with MBA’s.
Always the (professional) antagonist, my MBA comes with only one promise. You pass or you fail, and no fancy piece of paper suitable for framing.
You get, or not, a profitable, entrepreneurial business. This is hard.
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
We’ve all heard this question posed to us in our lifetimes.
Some of us have heard it so many times, we no longer hear it, no longer even consider it a valid question.
You now why?
Because nothing in life is guaranteed, except that we will die and taxes will increase.
Giving in, and quitting are so common place. Or, people won’t even start in the first place.
Why?
Because we can fail at everything.
But what if we didn’t fail?
How would our lives be transformed? And more importantly, how would the lives of others be transformed?
Heard this phrase the other night, probably on the TV as I was walking though a room, and I wrote it down.
“The art of compromise.”
We can take guesses as to what this means, or we can simply make up our own meaning. That’s what I did, and came up with five different ways:
The comment’s intent targeted the Senators power to say “no” to President Obama – relationships and the passing of President Obama’s Health Care Bill.
Some Senators held their vote until they got a really good deal for their state. This had people debating it’s fairness, and the Senator’s enormous power to say, “No.”
At the end of the day, it’s really about relationships and who you know.
Or maybe, just maybe, it’s about who you no.