The following post came from David Maister’s blog today, Passion, People, and Principles.

Life Could Be Better

You hear a lot of people saying things like these:

  1. We’re too busy doing the wrong things to have time to do the right things
  2. We’ve got so many of the wrong people in the key positions that we can’t get the right people appointed
  3. We got too may of the bad clients to serve that we don’t have the time to get the good clients
  4. We’ve been known as people who do X for so long, that no-one will believe that we now do Y
  5. I’m stuck doing stuff I hate but I can’t afford to quit
  6. He / She’s never going to change, so why bother?

When I do hear such phrases, I’m reminded of this:
“The past has a vote, not a veto.” -  Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, Born in Lithuania in 1880s