"We always done it that way"

I know we have all heard the saying "We always done it that way". When hearing that it reminds me of a story I heard once in church and it go as follows. There was a family cooking thanksgiving dinner and the wife would always cut the ham in halve and place each have in two separate pans every year. Once this was done, she would cook each halve separate. One day the husband asked "hey why you always cook the ham like that". The responds she got back was "we always done it that way" . So every year it was the same thing. Cut the ham and put it in two different pans. It finally got on the husbands nerves to the point she asked his wife's mother and he got the same "that's how we always done it". But the husband was not taking that answer. So he asked the grandmom. She laughed and laughed. The reply he received left him in tears. The answer was when the grandmom young she was very poor. The house she lived in had a very, very small oven and the only way to cook the ham was to cut it in halve and cook one half at a time. The mother as well as the daughter learned by watching. So the point I'm trying to drive home is, know why your doing what you do and the meaning behind what you do. Dont  just go with the "that's how we always do" statement because you limit yourself and you will stunt you ideas dead in their tracks. Learn to think outside the box explore new and great options!!!  Be blessed.