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Progress to be made
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Complaining about what’s wrong won’t make anything better. Move beyond mere complaints, and do the difficult work to create a positive way forward.

Punishing those who are to blame won’t improve the situation. Get past the blaming and turn your attention toward understanding, cooperation, and creating value for everyone involved.

Getting rid of what’s working poorly can leave you with nothing that works at all. See if you can find a way to improve rather than just destroy.

Sometimes it’s necessary to tear it all down and start from scratch. But that’s rarely as simple or straightforward as it sounds.

When the situation is broken, you don’t have to break it even more. Instead, look for what you can salvage, and use that as your starting point.

Avoid the temptation to descend into destruction and retribution. There’s great progress to be made by everyone, so put all your focus on that.

— Ralph Marston

Imagine higher
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You’re not stuck. You’re just neglecting to make full use of your imagination.

If one strategy fails to bring the desired results, there’s a different strategy that will. Do the work to develop it and implement it.

The world is not set against you. You’re just looking at it from a perspective that’s too narrow.

Step back, look at a bigger part of the picture. You’ll see helpful people, possibilities, resources, concepts and ideas you’ve never seen before.

Imagine viewing the situation from an altitude of thirty thousand feet, or from the surface of the moon. What opportunities would you see from a higher perspective that you’re failing to recognize now?

Imagination is difficult work, and well worth the effort. Put it to use, imagine higher, and do the great things you’re here to do.

— Ralph Marston

Only now
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— Ralph Marston