BEST ADVICE: Ric Goss

By Observer Staff
| 2:00 p.m. December 31, 2012

Ormond Beach Observer
Neighbors

We asked residents of Ormond Beach about the best advice they'd ever received. Here is one of their responses.

Ric Goss, Ormond Beach planning director

Best advice: Don't make perfect an enemy of good.

I am not sure when I first heard this, but I have practiced it for a long time. In my profession, urban planning, I have learned if you can get 50% to 75% of what you plan or purpose, that’s good.

I realized after doing so many plans and sticking to my guns for 100% of the plan, I was actually not getting anything done. So now, if I can get more than half of what I propose, it’s good, and I don’t let 100% kill the project, which then stressed me out.