Out with the best.... In with the better?
You know everything in our lives is a choice. Do I do this? Do I do that? With some of these choices we don't see the ramifications right away or for quite sometime. Its not until we see that inevitable hind sight that we realized that either we have made a horribly bad mistake, or we have done some thing great. But lets be honest with each other most generally when we are looking at things in hind sight its usually because something bad has happened, and we want to know where it is that it all went wrong.
I mean for reals. Look at NASA. When the Challenger blew up, they didn't say..."Oh well.... That sucks! Lets go build another and kill some more people." No first they halted all further missions. Then they started looking at all the possible causes and probabilities. They looked at all of the known defects. All known entries made by personnel about certain parts of the shuttle itself and of the SRB's until they found it. They found the cause, the catalyst. The reason why the lives of 7 Americans were lost. The cause was a O-ring seal failure on the right SRB. And the only way they were able to determine the cause of the accident was looking at things with hind sight goggles on.
That is what happens with life sometimes. We make a conscience decision to do something. Something that we are thinking at that moment is a good thing. Something that we have been wanting for a long time. Something that is fulfilling our deepest desire. You wake up hours, days or even weeks later feeling that it was a good thing. That things are only going to get better from that point on. But then here comes hind sight, and you start analyzing the whole situation. Why? Why now? What caused the chain of events to happen? What was the catalyst? But in the back of your mind you are still thinking that it was the best thing ever. Then here comes reality. You screwed up! You shouldn't have done that! Man oh man this is going to suck!! But at the same time you didn't do anything wrong. You allowed something to happen that you knew deep in your soul and in your heart you shouldn't do. But you did it anyway, cuz' at the time it was the best thing that you had ever experienced. So what do you do now that you know the ramifications of your actions. Do you press on, and try to correct the the faults of before and not allow them to happen again? Or do you just let dead dogs lie, and leave it be. Knowing full well that anything and everything you have worked on up to that point is gone forever because of one stupid decision. You basically feel your whole world crash around you, and it is something that could have been avoided, but you didn't.
Then from out of left field come marching back something that you had said goodbye to long ago. Something that you felt from every fiber of your being was the most perfect thing ever. You felt completed, you felt life. You pick up the pieces of that experiment and wonder if it is something that can be built upon? Or if it just back in a completely different capacity? Either way you know that the best thing for you is the decision that only you can make. No one else. No friends can help you, because their input is only going to con volute the facts. As I have told many people in my life.... As a manager you have to make the best decision that you can based on the fact and figures placed before you at that time. You can't let any other outside influences make your decision. And once that decision is made you have to stand behind that decision no matter what the ramifications of that decision is going to be. The same goes with life. Can you? Can I?
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I mean for reals. Look at NASA. When the Challenger blew up, they didn't say..."Oh well.... That sucks! Lets go build another and kill some more people." No first they halted all further missions. Then they started looking at all the possible causes and probabilities. They looked at all of the known defects. All known entries made by personnel about certain parts of the shuttle itself and of the SRB's until they found it. They found the cause, the catalyst. The reason why the lives of 7 Americans were lost. The cause was a O-ring seal failure on the right SRB. And the only way they were able to determine the cause of the accident was looking at things with hind sight goggles on.
That is what happens with life sometimes. We make a conscience decision to do something. Something that we are thinking at that moment is a good thing. Something that we have been wanting for a long time. Something that is fulfilling our deepest desire. You wake up hours, days or even weeks later feeling that it was a good thing. That things are only going to get better from that point on. But then here comes hind sight, and you start analyzing the whole situation. Why? Why now? What caused the chain of events to happen? What was the catalyst? But in the back of your mind you are still thinking that it was the best thing ever. Then here comes reality. You screwed up! You shouldn't have done that! Man oh man this is going to suck!! But at the same time you didn't do anything wrong. You allowed something to happen that you knew deep in your soul and in your heart you shouldn't do. But you did it anyway, cuz' at the time it was the best thing that you had ever experienced. So what do you do now that you know the ramifications of your actions. Do you press on, and try to correct the the faults of before and not allow them to happen again? Or do you just let dead dogs lie, and leave it be. Knowing full well that anything and everything you have worked on up to that point is gone forever because of one stupid decision. You basically feel your whole world crash around you, and it is something that could have been avoided, but you didn't.
Then from out of left field come marching back something that you had said goodbye to long ago. Something that you felt from every fiber of your being was the most perfect thing ever. You felt completed, you felt life. You pick up the pieces of that experiment and wonder if it is something that can be built upon? Or if it just back in a completely different capacity? Either way you know that the best thing for you is the decision that only you can make. No one else. No friends can help you, because their input is only going to con volute the facts. As I have told many people in my life.... As a manager you have to make the best decision that you can based on the fact and figures placed before you at that time. You can't let any other outside influences make your decision. And once that decision is made you have to stand behind that decision no matter what the ramifications of that decision is going to be. The same goes with life. Can you? Can I?
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Now playing: Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
via FoxyTunes
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