What's better than a great defense?

Most of us have heard this question before. Many of us would answer that: "What's better than a great defense is a great offense!" We think this way because our focus is on sports. However, Dad talks of life, and always took things to the next level.

Dad wanted me to think ahead of needing to go on the offense and doing it well. In fact he wanted me to win long before an offense was necessary. "What's better than a great defense is not needing one", he would say. This was significant because it taught me to take the time to think things through before the time for offense or defense ever came. Although Dad never played chess, he taught me - like in chess - to think many moves ahead of my current situation, and that has served me well every time I have lived by the principle (as long as I avoided succumbing to analysis paralysis). Think about the decisions you are making, and ask yourself: Is it going to be necessary to defend my decision, or is their a better way so that no one can ever question my integrity?