Consequences – Trying to Side-Step the Inevitable

Issac Newton said, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” If only that weren’t so. Too many times we formulate plans that we simply love. What we don’t necessarily love are the consequences that come along with those plans. Sometimes those consequences can be real spoilers, so we do everything we can do to avoid them, deny them, marginalize them, or justify them.

There are certainly instances where such actions might be deemed as appropriate. But more times than not, attempts to avoid the consequences of our choices is really about our unwillingness to look at the less than appropriate nature of those choices. As such, the most vexing question we might ask might be “what are the consequences of trying to avoid the consequences?”

 

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