Reality

The ability of the human mind to make a case for things both ways makes hindsight particularly unreliable.

I hear people tell me what and why they did things that I know are not true.  I was there!  The worst part of this is that if they do it, I probably do too.

What difference does it make?

It eases the repercussions of past actions, but it can also be used to justify future ones.  When that happens, it is destructive.

Persistence and hard work are the way to succeed, but they only succeed at doing what they point to.  If I want to go from here to there and a huge cliff is in my path, no matter how many times I walk off the edge of that cliff, I will fall.  I need to find a different way to negotiate that impasse.

Change is hard and changing behaviors that feel good and seem right even when they don’t work makes it even harder.

You really can’t fool mother nature.