This post is actually inspired by a friend of mine… and I intend to make largely the same point she was making, which I realize is a little lame, but this image is just too good to pass up:

There’s an important lesson to learn here, don’t you think?  How much time do we spend sweating the small stuff and missing the forest for the trees (or the bridge for the sharp corners, for instance)?  You can nitpick all you want - buy more billboards, drop another FSI, run a dozen more :30s, redo the carpet in the waiting room, wear a cooler tie, fire that PR guy - but you’d better watch the road while you’re on the way to get that tetanus shot, right?  Take a step back.  See the whole situation.  See if the supports for your bridge between you and your customers is really solid.  If you’re so busy complaining about that little scrape from some sharp sign that you forget about all the maintenance and time and attention that goes into a reliable bridge… well… you can curse that sharp sign the whole time you’re doing your Vanilla Sky impression off the bridge, but you’ll have no one to blame but yourself.

That got a little morbid at the end there, but you catch my drift.

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