Life is deciding. Knowing when to decide is the top level. In my long career of managing people the best advice I have ever seen given or given was along the lines of knowing when to quit or not.
Thank you for posting this today. I really needed to read this. I have a decision to make. Actually, a whole host of them, and they shouldn’t be made from a place of frustration but from a place of new vision. Trying to get there...
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“And while tenacity is generally an excellent quality, it may also incline you to over-invest in something that is no longer a good idea.”
I’ve often said “every virtue taken to its limit becomes a vice.
Same excellent advice... in a song by Kenny Rogers - “The Gambler”.
“You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run.”
“The sunk-cost fallacy causes us to overly worry about what we’ll lose if we move on and not think enough about the costs of not moving on.”
Or put another way, it’s hanging to a hope that you can get back what you’ve already lost, instead of accepting the reality that you made a mistake and moving on.
In large part, it’s an ego and self-image thing. It’s fear of admitting to yourself that you failed in that particular endeavor. No one wants to paint himself as a failure.
BTW, very helpful post.
Oh I think this would be difficult with family relationships. You might step back for a time, sometimes quite a while for some. But in the end I think family is well worth trying as often is necessary to retain those connections, while respecting members decisions they make...for awhile.
No mention of praying to seek God’s plan.
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