“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one idea” (Alain)

 

Recently, in management practice, we have been learning all about strategy formulation and implementation and how important it is to have back-up plans when you are trying to implement something.

Anyway, I’m not going to ramble on about business and strategic plans as this will bore most of you but this just got me thinking how vital it is to have back-up plans in life. Life throws us curve balls and unexpected things jump out at us when we least expect it, so always knowing that you have a plan B, can be very beneficial to you.

I would just like to share with you something that happened to me and my family as an example of this sort of thing. My mom, sister and I went to Singapore and Thailand last year and we had our itinerary all planned out and ready to go. We never even thought of planning a back-up plan just in case anything happened. Anyway, long story cut short my mom’s bags got stolen with everything in it and we were stuck. Luckily we had travel insurance and they payed us out but the moral of the story is that if we didn’t think of important things like that we would have been in a lot of trouble and not knowing what to do on the other side of the world.

No matter what happens in life, no matter where you are, no matter what you are doing, always have a plan B.

 

 

                          http://www.lifeaftercollege.org/blog/2011/11/06/november-miscellaneum/