Do You Do Things As Your Mom Did? Part 2

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I am sorry everyone I forgot to put on the previous discussion the story. This is where a delete for a discussion sure would come in handy. So let me know what you do and what is the task you either do the same or different. I have my moms habit of letting dishes soak in a tub of water before I attempt to wash them. It makes it so much easier to wash the dishes and also the pots and pans. I don't have a dishwasher so this works as well. Here is the story that I was talking about: You may have heard the story of the woman who routinely cut the ends off each roast before placing it in a pan. One day her husband asked why she did so, and she responded that she didn't really know, it was something her mother had always done. The husband then asked the mother-in-law why she always cut the ends off a roast prior to placing it in the pan and she answered it was something she'd always watched her own mother do. Finally, the husband confronted the grandmother-in-law and again asked the purpose in cutting the ends off the roast. "Oh, that," replied the elderly woman. "My roast pan was small. I always had to cut the ends off to make it fit." Many of us routinely do things a certain way because we've always done it that way or we were taught to do something in a certain way and never considered change. We might be better served, however, if moment by moment we routinely questioned our actions, implementing improvements as necessary and continually forcing ourselves to think "outside the box" of how it has always been done. Sometimes we just need to remind ourselves that life doesn't come in a box. And it doesn't need to be lived that way either. May you always be willing to think outside the box of the way it has always been.