Who gets more recognition – the politician who avoids a war, or the one who starts one and is lucky enough to win?
We forget those whose actions caused stability and avoided accident or catastrophe because it’s not dramatic, and maybe even boring. We don’t know about events that did not happen and why.
World War 3? The horrible accident on your street yesterday? The meltdown at the local power plant last month? The texting accident that put you in the hospital last week? Never happened.
Thanks to the efforts of our fellow citizens, a lot is going right. Wouldn’t you say?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is an old adage that I agree with. For me, the prevention is largely supported by excellent processes and a disciplined approach to following the process. Then “process yields results.”
It sounds boring, but works quite well. I look forward to your Think Daily posts every day.
Yes and I wish we were taught from a young age, collectively, to think this way! The news wouldn’t be the business it is today without the bad news. That’s what people want to hear–the bad stuff. The worse the news, the better the ratings. The news lost my business.
It is better to be the warrior in the garden, then the gardener in the war…