Monday, October 14, 2013

How Many Solutions?

How often do your problems require only one solution? Most of the time? Some of the time?

Probably not all of the time.

Some problems require more than one solution.

Not because you have an A-plan and a B-plan in case the A-plan doesn't work -- but because your A-plan includes a variety of changes to the source of your problem to fix that thing once and for all.

Or at least long enough to get some really great work done on your goals, enjoy your life, and laugh a bit.

Because we'll always be blessed with problems. And some of them need a bunch of solutions to stay solved.

-- Douglas Brent Smith

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