The Rut of Routine

I've said it before.

A rut is just a grave with the ends kicked out.

Routine can be good. - Getting up in the morning at the same time helps the self employed get started, with consistency.

But limiting your actions to the same as the prior day makes you miss opportunity.

Identify those things that you dislike doing, but need to be done, - then use routine to standardize performance.

For everything else, creativity is inhibited by routine.

Drive a different way to work or the store. Read different types of material. Talk to different types of people.

If you are in a rut you have quit learning.

Even if you are successful in your rut, someone can still pass you and take the checkered flag. All they have to do is get out of your rut.

Allan

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