149: Patience in Planning - Hold Loosely to Wishes
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This episode reflects on the importance of patience in planning capital projects, drawing from a historical letter by Abigail Adams.
"...Fancy is fruitful and promises fair, but, like the dog in the fable, we catch at a shadow, and when we find the disappointment, we are vexed, not with ourselves, who are really the impostors, but with the poor, innocent thing or person of whom we have formed such strange ideas..." This week, I am reading from Abigail Adams’ letter to Hannah Lincoln, written in 1761. Reflection questions: Have you become too firmly attached to the capital project you have envisioned and formed false notio...
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