What if there were no wiggle room? What if we knew for sure that we would get a “bill” for every single one of our follow-through failures? What’s more, what if we knew that the bill would always come immediately? It would be an entirely different ball game if, for example, we knew that smoking just one cigarette would kill us; that ignoring a child just once would cause immediate and permanent harm; or that failing to tackle a problem at work today would end your career today. The very thought of failing to follow through would indeed be alarming.
