How do you define crazy?
August 9, 2008 by Mary Ellen
Oh, you probably don’t experience it yourself. Maybe you just see it in others. Think. Do you encounter the crazies?
- A web designer hasn’t updated his site in four years
- You hear a good idea, take notes and put them on top the TV
- A service provider covets “The Four Hour Work Week” for herself (without the time to complete the book)
- Your book club doesn’t even pretend to read anymore although you still meet
- A business owner hires a consultant and then won’t take time to meet
- You cancel appointments at the last minute in order to grab time to finish proposals
- A ‘networking’ opportunity includes all the same people
- You figure seeing and being seen is better than nothing
- An entrepreneurs postpones an appointment for that afternoon
- You move a potential vendor out three weeks because you really don’t want to deal with that now
- A completed project has been three weeks waiting approval
- You tell yourself “If it’s important, they’ll send another message.”
Think about it. The definition of crazy: doing the same thing you’ve always done and expecting different results. How crazy is that?
Sound familiar?
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I’d add:
1. Paying a consultant (doctor, financial planner, attorney) good money – and then not implementing any of the advice – and then wondering why “it” didn’t work.
2. Continually being amazed (at least I am) that your body doesn’t work like it did when you were 20 – and indestructible (or so it seemed.)…then continuing to act like you’re indestructible…then being amazed…then continuing…;-)
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