Stick To Your Guns

THINK IT THROUGH

How many times have we listened to someone else only to learn the hard way that we were right all along? We should keep a tally. That way, we'd see statistically that 90% of the times, we should listen to our heart and use our own rational.

Today, I chose to ignore what my mind was telling me to do. Thing is, the proper way of doing the task was going to take a bit longer - I'd have to go back and start again. I got lazy and listened to another person's advice that I knew was flawed. Yet I did it anyway. The result, £££ to fix. That's a big 1-0 in my tally for knowing I should have paid heed to what I knew was the right thing to do!

Don't Rely On Others

DOING THE JOB PROPERLY

You may have heard the phrase: If you want a job done properly, do it yourself. I've been realising this increasingly more as I deal with large organisations who are so inefficient and therefore incapable of doing a job properly that I've had to take matters into my own hands. A few weeks back, I wrote about how my car had been crashed into. Since then, I've been dealing with insurance companies, the police and local government. None of them have proved very capable of sorting this out with a positive outcome for me - so my involvement has been paramount for success.

Do It Yourself
Without my intervention and investigations, the driver of the other vehicle would have gotten away scott free. The situation as it stands now, through knocking on doors and speaking with workmen - I have two witnesses, a signed statement for the police, CCTV footage and a brand new replacement hire car - an AMG 350 CDi Mercedes cabriolet to get me through while the repairs are being made - and all because I made the effort to investigate, put in the calls and argue my case.