Deliberate breaking of old methods, technologies, habits is the only way to move forward in life and in business.

About Deliberate Breaking

Good morning, folks! I am Jin with Morning Mindfulness Podcast. Hope life is terrific wherever you are! Let’s breathe and smile.

Have you ever heard the saying, “If it’s not broken, don’t break it”? I certainly have. I can understand the reason people say that. I and don’t advise anybody to go and start breaking things. However, there’s a couple of side effects of this philosophy I totally disagree with.

1 – things do break. I’ve seen it quite a lot, when everything looks nice on the outside, but if I touch it, it falls apart. Then people would ask me, “Why did you break it?” No, I didn’t. It was time for that thing to break down, I just happened to be there. Besides, it better breaks now, when we have time to fix it, then later, when it becomes an emergency. Please, don’t stick your head in a sand, like an ostrich.

2 – Even when I was a kid, I liked to study how things were working, and I liked to modify to make it easier. Again, I don’t like breaking things physically while it’s working. But sometimes we have to make this big move and basically turn our life over. It may be new lifestyle, new habits, new business model, new technology, whatever. Even if the old stuff is working, we have to get rid of old thinking and replace it with a new one. So literally, if it is not broken, we have to break it in order to move forward.

I had moments in life when I had to face some choices, and unfortunately I have not always made wise ones. I was trying to preserve what was working. And my conservative thinking turned out to be very-very costly. Don’t do what I’ve done.

Here’s a book “If it ain’t broke… Break It!”

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Jin

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