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The first place to improve is stop doing stupid things. If you don't know what you're doing that's stupid, then figure that out, and stop doing it.
Make new mistakes. Stop doing what isn't working, with or without having a new plan, with or without it being stupid. That particular form of not-working will end, and that ending is a lessening of cost or an increase of gain or both (all desirable outcomes).
"Make new mistakes" has been my New Year's Resolution for several years now. I highly recommend it (as long as it's understood to refer to social risks and not physical ones).
Can you give us some advice about how to figure out whether what we're doing is stupid or not? What exactly do you mean by stupid?
Posting vague advice about not doing stupid things is stupid. Don't do it, it will get downvoted. The reason it's stupid is that everyone already KNOWS that it's bad to do stupid things. The stupid things we do are not done in the knowledge that they are stupid. "Figure out what you're doing that's stupid" is basically the entire point of this site, and you're hiding an awful lot of knowledge and complexity in a simple order.
I upvoted it. It's a useful thing to constantly remind yourself of.