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Confucius

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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If you realize that you cannot achieve what you set out to do, you should not change what you want to accomplish. Instead, you need to change the way you are trying to reach that goal by taking different or better actions.

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