This question reminds me of the Dr. Seuss tale of the North-Going Zax who ran into the South-Going Zax on the same road. As they came to the same place, they bumped, stood foot to foot; each protesting that the other was blocking their path.

They refused to let the other pass, each vowing to prove that they could stand their ground. “I’ll prove to you,” said the North-Going Zax, “that I won’t change my ways if I have to keep standing here fifty-nine days.”

“And I’ll prove to YOU,” yelled the South-Going Zax, “that I can stand here in the prairie of Prax for fifty-nine years! Never budge in the least! Not an inch to the west! Not an inch to the east! I can and I will, if it makes you and me and the whole world stand still!”

Naturally the world did not stand still; they built roads and bridges around the two, and the world kept going much to the chagrin of the North-Going Zax and the South-Going Zax. Indeed the world simply left them “un-budged in their tracks.” No one, except the Zaxs, really cared.

One of the Weekly Coach’s Twelve Secrets to Success … is to “know when it is time to let go of your need to be right!”