Plan for the Unexpected
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
-Norman Cousins
It is ideal to wish that
everything will go as we want. However, the reality is that certain things may
not be in our control. Some unanticipated events may throw our plans haywire.
Someone may not be as effective and efficient as he should be. Some assumptions
could go wrong. You have to anticipate such eventualities.
You can ask yourself the
following questions when you are about to get out of your bed:
·
What is the most important task that I have to
complete today?
·
Do I have all the resources lined up, including
time?
·
What could go wrong and what should be my
counter-measure?
·
What critical assumptions could go wrong and what
should I do?
·
Am I realistic about my expectations of others? Am
I too optimistic?
I am not sounding pessimistic.
While we should be optimistic, we should also plan for unexpected events.
Perhaps we should be ‘optimistically pessimistic’!
Human beings are
unique from other living beings in their ability to anticipate and plan and
this has made us to survive millions of years while other living beings
extinct.
(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')
NC Sridharan
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