Today a good friend sent me an email saying he was giving up, at least for a while, on a project he's been working on. It just wasn't coming together. And later this evening I ran across a great little item, the kind of thing that people send each other on the internet, in the book, "Don't Compete...Tilt the Field!" by Louis Patler. He said his assistant sent it to him, and the heading was "If your horse dies, dismount!" It then suggested what people often do instead of dismounting:
1. Buy a stronger whip.
2. Change riders.
3. Appoint a committee to study the horse.
4. Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
5. Create a training session to increase riding ability.
6. Harness several dead horses together to increase speed and pulling power.
Actually there are 26 responses, but you get the idea. Most of us hate to give up on an idea or a project, but sometimes it makes sense. Horse sense.
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