Best Case Scenario

Plus a bit of truth

The exciting part of planning.

Then we say things like “all things being equal we should hit a billion in one year.”

The only thing is they almost don’t work.

Here’s another one — worst-case scenarios.

The thing with worst-case scenarios is we are not real about them. We peg around a few things that might work if the whole doesn’t.

So, we say things like. “If this doesn’t work then this will and if worse comes to worst…” and we end it with something a little nice.

What that does is, it takes away the pain of thinking the whole might come crumbling and nothing might work but worse is it doesn’t let us prepare for the worst.

How about another way. How about you see your plan as a chance. How about you see the step as a chance at a goal not a way to the goal.

When you see it as a chance, you take away the attachment.

When you see it as a chance, then it can fail and when it does, you can take another chance.

When you see it as a chance, then it might work and when it does, you take another chance.

When you see it as a chance, you can focus on making the chance count without relying on the promises that success brings.

Will you camp around best and worst-case scenarios or will you take a chance?

By the way, I’m not saying don’t do best and worst-case scenarios, I’m saying resist the urge to tie yourself to an outcome because it might not come…or it might.