by Dwayne Phillips Past sins? Past poor performance? That is good news. It means we correct mistakes and do better. We have hope for our future. Good News: When we fixed things, we broke things When we changed things, we had unintended, bad consequences. We wasted money. We wasted time. We treated on another badly. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Mistakes'
Good News: We Did Badly in the Past
March 24th, 2019 · No Comments
Tags: Change · Choose · Mistakes
Read It All
January 17th, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We make mistakes. We make mistakes at a given rate of X mistakes per unit of work. Look at all the work, find all the mistakes, learn, and change direction. We make mistakes. We make X mistakes per page. The more pages the more mistakes. In a bad situation? Sit and read […]
Tags: Learning · Mistakes · Work
Life and Ctrl-Z
November 15th, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Life doesn’t have an undo key. Isn’t that wonderful? The Ctrl-Z key sequence (command-Z for the Apple universe) is the universal undo command. Type the wrong words? Press Ctrl-Z to remove them. Deleted the wrong words? Press the Ctrl-Z to bring them back. Did something regrettable? Well, you know. Life doesn’t have […]
But Mom said…
November 12th, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We can’t seem to shake this childish manipulation. Ask around enough, and someone will provide the desired answer. And it won’t be my fault. I suppose we all did this as children. If Dad said, “No,” we asked Mom because there was a chance she would say, “Yes.” Childish behavior. We all […]
Tags: Accountability · Adults · Childhood · Mistakes