Pace

Ideas are good.  Creativity is great.  I think that each of has more creativity than we give ourselves credit for AND we could use more of YOUR ideas.  But if you don't have time to think about the next best thing, you won't ever have these great ideas.  The trouble lies in your pace.  If you only have enough time in the day/week to get the pressing things done, then maybe you are doing too much.  If you never have time to crack open a book, or sit at your desk for 10 minutes and try to figure out how to do this job better/faster/stronger, then your pace is too fast.  Acknowledging that I am right will do little to solve the problem, either.  I know I am right, and you know that I'm right.  It is going to take the woman or man with enough guts to force themselves to start thinking past today and stop just doing the same things over and over again.  Try new stuff.  Fail at it - even.  The best ideas seem to come after a lot of other mediocre ideas have been tried and flushed.  Why not slow down and try something new?