Explore the options

I've just had to take a potentially costly decision ... one I wanted to take, but carefully. It is obviously important to explore options ... but, too often, we explore only those options we have explored before. The 'trick' is to find some way of exploring different, perhaps innovative, options .. by talking to different people, by reading different material, by asking different questions. Next time you take a big decision - before you take it - ask yourself which of the options you are exploring is 'different'.