I must confess that I have always been a planner. Maybe I should even use the word chronic planner.
I believe in having a good backup plan even if you have a good primary plan. My experience in life has been that even the best laid plans can quickly go astray. And so, I believe it's important to have something to fall back on.
But what if "Plan B" isn't going to work? Is it a good idea to have a Plan C, D and E as well?
Maybe I get a bit obsessive about it because I have come to recognize that I often do have multiple levels of plans. And that's not necessarily a good thing.
Experience has taught me that whereas having backup plans is definitely a worthy endeavor, the danger is that you can get so wrapped up in making sure your backup plans are going to work out well that you don't actually have time for your main event.
Or maybe you have time for it but you're not applying yourself 100% to it because you're too busy thinking about what the fallback situation is.
I have caught myself in that situation the number of times, where I realize that "Plan B" is actually more polished and organized than "Plan A..." but because Plan B is in fact the backup plan I'm not applying myself 100% to it, but I'm wasting enough time on Plan B that I'm only half-assing what is supposed to be my primary objective: Plan A.
As a result, that primary objective is turning out to be rather disappointing because I find myself thinking I just don't have enough time to do this well!
Well whose fault is that?
Ultimately, we each have to find the level of planning that fits within our comfort zone while at the same time not destroying what we're reaching for as our main goals in life.
It's OK to want to engineer a "soft landing" in case or aspirations fail, but if that's where all our focus is going, then we're likely reducing the chances that main goal will actually happen.
And that's not so good!
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I had never stopped to think about this.
Having backup plans isn't bad, however, focusing on designing such a perfect plan B... Don't we take it for granted that plan A will fail?
I read a book some years ago where the author said: Prepare, Fire! And now take notes, implying that, when making a plan, we do not have to be 100% prepared, since the important thing is to have a plan and put it into action. If there is something in that plan that does not work, you have to examine it and correct what is not working and try again, as many times as necessary.
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