We’re so accustomed to focusing on the problems, suffering with the problems, fixing the problems, reassessing the problems…it’s easy to lose sight of the simplicity of the goal.
‘This is the change we’re trying to make’ might be a more helpful attitude than ‘Here are all the problems’.
The more optimistic approach won’t make the problems go away. But it’ll probably make some of them go away.
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For many of us…if an aspect of the project was easy we would hardly know what to do with it.
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The marathoner is going to finish the race either way…the question is whether to spend twenty six miles thinking about how much your legs hurt, or spend the time thinking about how sweet that finish line is going to be. Both things are true. You get to choose.
