“Overprepare, then go with the flow.”
I definitely over prepare, I try to think of every contingency just to be on the safe side. Sometimes, life still throws a monkey wrench into the works and best laid plans bust apart. That said, I am, always have been, and probably always will be a planner and a preparer!
How nice it would be to “go with the flow”, certainly much less stressful. I suppose what this lesson is telling us is that if we are overly prepared, then we’ll be able to sit back, assess and “go with the flow?”
I’m reminded of a conversation years ago with a woman lauding her son for wanting to be his own person and go against the flow. Sometimes though, she warned him: “It’s OK if you’re marching to the beat of a different drummer, unless you turn around and EVERYONE is going the other direction.”
Sometimes it works to be a salmon fighting your way upstream. But wouldn’t it be nice if all our lives’ preparedness allowed us to be a leaf resting on the top of a gently flowing river flowing downstream?
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