When things are going pretty well, people don’t change. Why should they? There is no reason to change. We like habits. Habits make it easier because we don’t have to think much.
But things happen in two ways. Slowly….and then suddenly.
Slowly we become unhealthy. Suddenly we have a crisis.
Slowly we become broke. Suddenly we are out of money.
Slowly we lose friends. Suddenly we are alone.
Slowly we spend our reputation. Suddenly we have no credibility.
When things happen slowly, we don’t change. Then we have to and it is not fun.
In some cases, we don’t get a second chance. The accumulated mistake is fatal.
The wise among us will see what happens when we do this or that and look ahead and see what will happen one day if we keep doing that and change – before they have to.
What do you need to change now – before you HAVE TO?
I loved this episode of Think Daily! These are very wise words to live by and something that I practice as much as possible. I actually created a little saying for myself along these lines which goes, “Think in the future in order to do well in the present and not regret the past”.
I just wrote an article about this and was having a conversation with a friend about it the other day, but how it relates to the civilization/ecosystem level. People take “aquifer depletion” as an abstract, intangible concept—until nothing comes out of the tap. Personally or collectively, sometimes things need to get bad enough in order to make a change.
Accumulated mistake is fatal- I loved this.
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