"How often have you had a project turn out wrong and said, “Oh I knew that wouldn’t work!”? Well, if you knew it wouldn’t work, why did you do it? Organization expert Don Aslett gives the following list of things that don’t work: Lending to relatives County fair gizmos Hoping the cat or dog won’t get pregnant again Filling the bathtub while you’re busy with something else Hoping a leak will go away Wet paint signs Signs that say “Don’t pick the flowers” Sending fragile things without padding Cheap sprinklers Taking the turkey out of the freezer the same day you intend to cook it Not changing your clothes before painting And making bargains with God. We should know these things don’t work, be we often go ahead and do them anyway. Let’s learn from our mistakes. If you know it isn’t going to work, leave it alone and concentrate on something that will. You’ll be a lot more likely that way to redeem the time. "