Businesses thrive on new ideas: sometimes those ideas get squelched because we either lack the courage to try them or fall back on old habits, doing things one way because that’s the way they’ve always been done. Or, we get paralyzed by too much information – getting confused and finding it’s easier to not even try. It’s a bit like buying a car: there are too many choices, we’re influenced by what everyone else is driving, and the new innovations seem risky…so we end up driving the same brand and model over and over. It's as if we fear failure so much that we refuse to try new things. As professionals, we must have the courage to make decisions about trying new things: sometimes we’re right and other times we’re not… but even when wrong it’s better than doing nothing. Don’t worry about the could haves, might haves, and should haves – just give it your best shot today.
Louis E. Boone (born 1941): Author
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