Business partners and I
currently re-evaluated
a project we were working on.
It wasn’t showing results.
We had to decide
whether or not
we should continue with it.
One of the business partner’s reasons
for sticking with the project
was we had already invested
quite a bit of time and other resources
into it.
I don’t care about that.
That investment hadn’t shown results.
Those resources were lost.
They wouldn’t be recovered
no matter what we decided.
What I cared about
was the resources
we’d have to invest in the future
and whether or not
THAT investment would show positive results.
“The big mistake, though,
the one that will cost you,
is staying on that bus.
I know it wasn’t easy
to get on the bus.
I know you got a seat.
I know it’s getting dark outside.
But you’re on the wrong bus,
and staying on the wrong bus
won’t make it the right bus.
If you really want to get
where you set out to go,
you’re going to have to
get off the wrong bus.”
Your decisions today
should be made
based on your projections about
the future,
not the decisions you made
in the past.