Pay Now. Or Pay Later.

Life and work are such that you can experience pain now when you control it. Or you can experience pain later, when you have no control.

Diligence now or disappointment later.

Proactive now or root cause analysis later.

It is always a choice between pain now or pain later. You don’t get to not have pain. You only get to control when there is pain.

1. Planks today. Or back doctor tomorrow.
2. Work today. Or broke tomorrow.
3. Floss today. Or dentist tomorrow.
4. Train today. Or lose the war tomorrow.
5. Build relationships today. Or be alone tomorrow.
6. Add observability today. Or lose all of your sleep tomorrow.
7. Pay for talent today. Or lose your customers tomorrow.
8. Hire good managers today. Or fail to deliver forever.
9. Security today. Or pay the ransomware tomorrow.
10. Test automation today. Or 1 month test cycles tomorrow.

Pain today. Or Pain tomorrow.

The outcome is always decided long before it happens. As managers, we are required to look around the corner and find where the next problem is coming from.

What am I neglecting today? Where is my risk tomorrow? This is what I’m always thinking about.